" .. that all our stories, in whatever form they are told, are expressions of our relationship to our lands and waters and are inseparable from our traditional laws – in the case of my community, the Gitanyow, what we call our Ayookwx. This isn’t happening in art galleries or on the pages of high-minded magazines. This is happening on our lands and in the courts and legislatures, and it has to stop. .."

The ultimate futility is to try and stop the progress of history ! By this criterion we might still be swinging stone axes, building pyramids, worshipping Zeus or buying our kitchen help on the local slave market. Athenian democracy would never have reached beyond Athens, and health care would be under the tender mercies of the local witch doctor. We would be burned at the stake for reading the Bible and the world would still be flat .... 

History is a bit like watching sausages being made - not for the faint of heart but great on the barbeque  .-)

As for the article  .-(