Dominant Culture and Indian Agents Alive and Well in DMC: What century is this?

Met with the new point man for the History Center of Olmsted County.  An amiable fellow who has never aligned himself with any one tribe.  I can't say for certain, but he, like the Chair of the NAC of SE MN, are white. 

After our grant with Museology, Cara Clarey and GRADS, fell through because the HCOC wanted to go in a new direction, they formed a new advisory board.  The old advisory board was made up of Dakota Tribal Historians, Ho-Chunk anthropologist, and other Indian people with knowledge of their culture and ways.  The new board is made up of Jim Wilson (white), Chair of the NAC SE MN, Dawn Littleton, (white) from the Friends of Indian Heights, Mitch Moore, (white) from the Friends of Indian Heights, Tom Hozier, (white)from the Woodlake Battle Field Exhibit, and Bob Sanborn (white), retired teacher from RCTC who taught Native American studies.  Uh; where are the Indians?

Nakoma is now the point man and we showed him the RFP that the HCOC put out for their new exhibit, using the money that we the old advisory committee helped secure for them.  Sadly, poor old Nakoma never saw the RFP and took the HCOC at their word.  Namely that they would have an exhibit that depicted the Indians of Olmsted County, past and preset, but the RFP says that the HCOC is just going to rebrand their Indian artifacts and have a display about "pre-contact" generic Indians. Additionally, the new RFP says that the HCOC is going to work with 4 Indians from SE MN.  We asked him who those 4 Indians were and he didn't know.

So, right now, the HCOC is using monies from the Minnesota Historical Society and there is NOT ONE INDIAN among them on their planning committee.  Sad, so very sad.  Now they are using a good man with an Indian heart as their point man, but in actuality, they are using him as an Indian Agent.  How do I know this?

When I told him that I have been barred from the HCOC to use its library for HPC purposes by Jim Suk (white, HCOC Board Chair), Lisa Baldus (white, HCOC Executive Director) , and Jeff Alleman (white, and HPC Chair), and that the Post Bulletin wants to interview relative to the punitive action taken against me because I supported Cara Clarey whom they fired for Lord only knows why and called the HCOC on their non Dakota and Ho-Chunk holdings and asked that they repatriate them if they weren't going to use them in the exhibit; Nakoma said, "I would hold off on that for a while because any bad press about the HCOC will jeopardize the exhibit at the HCOC."  Nakoma was also promised that he could teach classes at the HCOC on Native Americans.

So, I have a hard decision to make, go ahead with the interview about the punitive action Jeff Alleman took against me in cahoots with Jim Suk and Lisa Baldus, and then threatened that I would not have any of my Native American interests realized at the HCOC and the HPC if I went public with the story and jeopardize the dominant white culture exhibit at the HCOC.  Hmmm...what to do?