In a guest opinion piece in the Billings Gazette, Mark Azure, President of the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council and RMTLC Treasurer, responds to radio announcer Paul Mushaben’s remarks regarding segregating Native American basketball tournaments. In his opinion piece, President Azure states:
“We can only hope that someone will bring him up to speed about the negative impact and connotations associated with the banal concept of “separate but equal”; a concept which was, and still is, unmistakably steeped in prejudice and entitlement.”