Tribal governments sometimes aligned with corporations against their own grassroots members

Evidence

Nor could tribal members depend on their elected leaders. “Corporations seemed to be lining the pocketbooks of a lot of tribal leaders, especially if it involved natural resources and environment,” explains Tom Goldtooth, coordinator of IEN. “What was emerging was a grassroots movement, of grassroots people, speaking out from the grassroots level.” — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 617

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels ch1’s ‘county revenue dependence aligned with racial-geographic segregation’ — institutional structures capture against community interest. — connects to: Corporate payments to tribal leaders made grassroots organizing necessary; IEN’s governance formally excludes tribal governments to serve grassroots groups — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 626
• ADDENDUM: Contrasts with the trees-as-infrastructure and sacrifice pieces on how governing structures can privilege extraction over community.