Real Control

In the first place, I'd like to say that I've always found the idea of coercive population control antithetical to the concept that people are born with natural rights. That being said, it was nice to have someone outside of my tradition come in and argue about other issues that population control brings up (And the biases it reveals, especially the quote from Paul Ehrlich at the end of the article).
On a larger note, I felt that this piece was a perfect complement to those of Allen and LaDuke. Allen positions indigenous feminism as an historical tradition, one that drove many American Indian cultures. She reaches all the way into the present day, but does not spend so much time in defining what battles are being fought. Both LaDuke and Smith pick up the task and carry it forward. I see Smith's Rape of the Land as a laying out of the war, while LaDuke constructs one particular battlefield where the conflict is being waged. The complex nature of these conflicts reflects the complex world that we now live in. No longer is it just a fight between American Indians and the government, but also against Multinational Corporations and a kind of extreme yuppie environmentalism. In their own way, they are even more destructive than the government, especially the environmentalists. As Smith pointed out, the environmentalists seem to have no place in nature for American Indians to inhabit. Nature should be pristine(Read: NO PEOPLE). In the end, the goals are the same, though the methods may have become more sophisticated.
I think it is a testament to the power and ability of American Indian women that they are such effective spokespeople for their way of life. Hopefully, their efforts can create a new age of American Indian prosperity and peace.