Religion and state have united to assimilate the American Indian in the past, such as with Ulysses S. Grant’s Peace Policy that created the Indian Boarding Schools, and in more recent times such as “‘pro-Peabody Western Coal’ Indians and obtaining a false ‘Hopi-Navajo’ Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs…” who were several First Mesa Hopi who had been converted to Mormonism. ‘Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them,’ and you cannot change what you do not acknowledge.
