I've long said here, and even more on my other blog, that being an atheist is no guarantor of moral or intellectual superiority to the rest of humankind, and occasionally said the same about being a scientific skeptic.

Well, the same is true of being an American Indian. From potlatch tribes of the US Pacific Northwest killing slaves on the flames as part of potlatch destruction events, through Aztecs ripping out bleeding human hearts, and on to today's Ute's not only drilling for but refining oil, being an American Indian is no guarantor of being humanistic or environmentalist.

Latest proof on not being humanist? A tribe in Wisconsin, in a case before the Supreme Court, loan-sharking people with higher interest rates (and apparently tougher dunning) than the state of Wisconsin allows, and wanting exemption from Wisconsin laws as a sovereign nation.