Problems of our own

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Dear Editor:

Our Native leaders have problems of their own. Over the summer I posted a comment on Windspeaker saying how it would be nice if Native leaders took steps to make themselves known to the general public. That would help us constituents to possibly identify with and understand what each stood for. Maybe, as an informed public, we could say that we or I stand behind this person and his or her ideas. Here we are nine months later and we still don't know much ado about Phil [Fontaine].

At least when Matthew Coon Come was in office, the waves that he caused with the big rocks he threw into the water were felt across the country. Natives were proud to have someone with a pair working for them.

With Phil in, all looks like a choreographed photo-shoot with all the brown-faced court jesters performing amusing hi-jinx.

Either Phil has no idea that he's being used as a pawn in Big Paulie Martin's crew (sponsorship scandal) or he's a henchman patiently working himself into a high-paying governor generalship. It seemed to work for him last term.

-Gary Mishibinijima