After a paper is produced or a report prepared, somebody else gets to see it and sometimes even use it. The important thing is that once submitted the work of an Anthropologist, is no longer under his or her control.  It only takes one mindless bureaucrat or greedy politician to pick out of a paper something they can use to help them build a petty empire in a local office somewhere, or to further their own political aspirations at the expense of the people studied.

Many of the native people I spoke with before leaving LaLoche, knowing I was going back to the larger society, asked me to advise the powers that be, they would like a Library. They wished to learn about other people and places through books.  They hoped to learn new skills through books of instruction. They wanted to feel less isolated from the rest of the world through the shared knowledge contained in books.