Federal services to tribes operate as bait-and-control like feeding livestock

Evidence

It’s like a cattle pen…the farmer comes to the pen, and the farmer throws a bale of hay in there, and then they all come running to it. Then after he feeds them, he does what he needs to do to them—milk, or meat. That bale of hay is the money, that housing, health service. I give you so much of this, if you do something for me. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 216

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes ch4’s account of how federal selection of leaders distorts tribal governance and how the IRA imposed recognition — reservation services as a control device, not a benefit. — connects to: Federal selection of leaders distorts how whole nations make their decisions — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 183; Federal commodity food programs perpetuate colonial dependency on Native lands — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 722
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source