Frank, I am uncertain as to why you want to make this a racist issue.  Eek, receives a USDA grant which works out to ~ $20,000 per person plus other funding not disclosed in the article.  Is it racist to assume that this other funding does not come from local village taxes?  Is it racist to look at the ratio of average per capita federal taxes paid in Eek to the total federal spending per capita in Eek and then compare that ratio to those that live in Anchorage?  Shame on you for trying to close down the discussion by claiming it as a racial issue when it is a economic reality/issue that federal tax dollars are disproportionately distributed by zip code.  But then, I do not embrace the phony idealism "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."