It’s the ugly undercurrent with the Joba Chamberlain DUI story: The idea that Chamberlain’s arrest for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol is somehow connected to his Native American background.Don’t kid yourself. It’s out there. “The stereotype always goes back to the drunken Indian,” said Dalton Walker, a 26-year-old Native American journalist in Sioux Falls, S.D., who covered Joba at Nebraska and blogs about Native American athletes at www.reznetnews.org.

