Why no Native Americans in prominent positions?

[hunter]

19. This is true, and it also makes "conservatives" hostile toward them.

Even in small ways.

My niece and my kid's SO have tribal affiliations and haven't had to pay for fishing licenses, with certain limitations mostly related to $ income.

This makes the same people who froth at the mouth about affirmative action for black people spew the same old "reverse racism" crap.

"It's not fair!"

The sad truth is that many people in the U.S.A. measure everything in terms of Race and Privilege and consciously or subconsciously believe that White Protestant Men ought to be at the top of the hierarchy, followed by White Protestant Women, and so on down the line.