'Marshall Plan' posed for reservations

Speaking some time ago to a four-state meeting of tribal leaders in Billings, Mont., Alvin Windy Boy, a Montana Chippewa, suggested that reservations deserved a Marshall Plan akin to the post-World War II $120 billion program that rebuilt Europe.

“We were annihilated by the turn of the century (1900) but we’ve never been rebuilt,” Windy Boy pointed out.

The Marshall Plan was not based solely on American compassion for the 18 European countries that participated. We had a selfish interest in stopping the spread of communism with a strong Europe as a partner and buffer.

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