Contacts re Stuwix

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Hey, don't take it so personally!  Scientists tend to regard all
study subjects that way.

(Re my personal experience--doctors >patients, too--most
regrettably.)

Jeff

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:50:43 -0700, phil cash cash
<pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET> wrote:

>good words! thanks dave,
>
>phil cash cash
>cayuse/nez perce
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Lewis <coyotez at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 1:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Contacts re Stuwix
>
>
>>I think it is important to remember that we should not assume that
>>Indigenous people know nothing of their own history and language and that
>>academia holds all of the answers. This has been a historic problem with
>>all scientists who assume they are the experts over the native peoples they
>>are studying.