If you search in the past for the solution to your problem of the present, you will not find it.  Alaska Natives do not have two brains, a Native brain and a non-Native one.  They have a single brain, which is capable of the same things all brains are: thinking, studying, learning.  Perhaps policies of the past were unjust--the past usually does look that way, unless your folks happened to be on the fortunate side.  Those who feel the weight of that injustice can keep returning to the past and hauling it forward into the present.  Or they can dump the past and focus on the future, asking what they will need to be the ones to fashion it.  A good education might be one place to start.