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Originally Posted by karl_1052
The council has all the money and power. They discourage any book learnin for that reason.
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It's easier to control their people if those people don't have the information that tells them what's wrong. They want to govern themselves, but they get taken advantage of by their own. No one knows who is really in charge; the grandmothers, the Warriors, or the band council.
Of course our history, where Natives are concerned, isn't perfect either, however it mostly involves residential schools, rather than Wounded Knees.