I'm not posting this to slam the tribes. But I did think it was interesting to know that the Puyallup tribal counsil is suffering from the same ailment our government suffers... GREED
http://www.msnbc.com/local/pisea/m85848.asp

If you put people in power and give them access to lots of money, do you really think they are out to help out the little people???

[ 08-30-2001: Message edited by: Pickled Herring ]

Pickled, are trying to group all tribes in this greed catagory. Or you could have stated the Puyallup's have a greed problem as the artical states.
There are alot of tribes that don't have the resource and land base to generate the revenue for this greed problem.
It all starts with leadership. I have been following the posts for the Skokomish River problems and this all comes down to this tribes leadership and respect for the resource.
Thank You.

tchinouk,
Thanks for pointing that out, I have editted my post accordingly.

Money does corrupt in many cases. I wish more of the money would go to restoring healthier runs of fish as opposed to luxury box seats at mariners games.

If Governor Locke is monitoring I have an outstanding loan that I would like to have paid