Sometimes to tell a story completely, you have to go a ways back, so be patient with me.

Prior to the 1954 termination, a delegation of the Klamath Tribes went to Washington DC to lobby for the sale of their reservation lands.  The tribal members voted and the land was sold.  If my numbers are correct, 2,100 members on the rolls received the equivalent of $1.5 billion in today’s dollars, which was absolutely their right to do.  With the sale of the land, the tribe was terminated.   Continue reading “White Privilege – The Smoking Gun”