According to “Custer Died for Your Sins,’ by Vine Deloria, an anthropologist may do more harm than good in Native American research when the anthropologist hosts workshops, which inform young Indian community members of what the anthropologist believes to be the issues as well as the solutions to the issues of challenges facing the community, rather than allowing Indians to organically administer their own solutions to modern day obstacles, develop their own leaders, and determine how their culture should best be preserved in modern society. Anthropologists oftentimes merely “see what they want to see,” when conducting research. They temper their observational research reports to best supplement their abstract theories. In doing this, they
