"thanks for reading the book! It is spot on from the perspective of white dominator culture and the struggle for individual freedom."

Well I don't take that as a compliment, but ok. I am not white nor am I a dominator. Of course, my view is unique and not the same as someone who grew up on the rez, but this is not a colonizer mindset we are sharing in this book. It's not an explicitly native perspective either. 

You are correct that native and ancient traditions are still alive. Unfortunately, what we have now on reservations and with tribal government is not representative of what our traditions were in the past. There is much corruption in tribal government, many natives turning away from their own traditions towards christianity and a generally western "white" lifestyle. It's sad. But there are those trying to keep those traditions (at least the spiritual traditions) alive, but unfortunately there aren't many practicing our past indigenous form of governance in the U.S.. At least not to the extent we have seen with the Zapatistas and in Cheran.