Feudalism in the Modern Era

First things first; there's a distribution on Tuesday that everyone knows about and it's 200$.

Alexis and reserves in general are still tribalisms ie: 'Everybody knows everybody'. This is a good thing in that the community is more closely knit and less informal as compared to most others, but this is a bad thing because it amplifies the possibilities of social engineering; by which I mean that the government can easily "do what it wants" and nobody will oppose it do to their proximity to the powers that be and if anyone does oppose it, they can expect to be suppressed.
This all begs the question "What is there to oppose?", well typically there a few things which every Chief&Council tend to do: fill key positions with relations and/or politically significant people, take exceptional liberty regarding communal money (few referendums), mismanagement.

Basically we have all the disadvantages of Democracy with few of it's advantages and all of the disadvantages of Tribalism with none of it's advantages. 'Our ancestors' were a Meritocracy: the best at war led in war, the best in civil matters led in civil matters. With a Tribalist Democracy, there exists a power of which all share the same premise: "Human society is cruel and unjust, a force to be controlled". Such measures are in place to manage the ambition of individuals, but because Democracy wasn't concieved with such a small population in mind this is a weakness in it's integrity. The cons of being a Tribalism are that since we're so few we are easily managed through subjective as opposed to general measures; with such subjections being what 'family you're in and how influential you are'. It's not about ability, it's about manipulation. Indian affairs likes the system as it is, they like us to be ineffectual and quarrelsome.