Wait, wait, wait, wait....isn't this the same Elise Patkotak that just wrote an article saying how the cut to the dividend will most affect people living in the Bush? 

The same Native people who get free health care, government subsidized water and sewer, government help to stop erosion, government help to pay for alcohol and drug abuse, government help to bail out their native corps; government help for pretty much everything? 

When the Alaska Native people can learn to stand on their own two feet, and carry their own weight, and not point the finger at the white man for all of their problems...then they might actually be taken seriously.