NOVEMBER 2007: FORUM
The challenge continues for tribes
I was completely amazed with the cover article on the
development efforts of Oregon tribes [TRIBES
2.0, October] and equally impressed that your team sought
out qualified “observers” such as Tom Hampson and
Mike Burton. Several of us old guys were reminiscing
recently that some of what we’re doing exceeds even our
wildest ambitions when we started — and we thought we
were being kind of arrogant then. Even my Mom noted not long
ago that she was reluctant to say anything to us then, but she
believed we were completely “nuts to think our little
tribe could do any of those plans.”
We told her that we were thankful she didn’t say
anything to us, or it could have broken our spirit. We have
lots more to do and I guess nothing can ever be perfect, but
the challenge still drives us.
Thanks for being fair and insightful to our situation and for
us tribes. That’s the best we can hope for from the
American public.
Dave Tovey
Deputy director, Cayuse Technologies
Pendleton
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