Posted on 12/21/2018 3:29:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government’s responsibility to provide for education, public safety, health care and other services under treaties, laws and other acts.
The report made public Thursday is a follow-up to a 2003 report that described the shortfalls as a quiet crisis. Funding has remained mostly flat since then, leaving tribes unable to tackle an epidemic of suicide, high dropout rates, violence against women and climate change, for example, the report said.
Commission Chairwoman Catherine Lhamon said she believes it boils down to a lack of political will on the part of the U.S. government, though not all commissioners agreed.
“I am ashamed that this is the way we as a nation treat any among us,” Lhamon told The Associated Press. “I hope that people who live with this every day and for whom this is and has been a set of experiences and expectations will recognize themselves in this, will feel heard and honored and see a path forward consistent with what they are owed.”
The independent, bipartisan commission was created under the 1957 Civil Rights Act to inform Congress about civil rights matters. …
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If only it had been adequately funded Elizabeth Warren could have afforded more Native American DNA.
“violence against women and climate change”... I never thought I would these two subjects in the same sentence.
Climate change isn’t occurring and is essentially left wing claptrap, so we’ve got that covered... Violence against women is a ‘real’ and very serious problem.
AP’s Ms. Fonseca should be ashamed of herself for putting them both in the same sentence.
+. lol......
That would be my exact question to her.
How long has there been a lack of political will?
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With some NATION/TRIBES raking in hundreds of millions, if not billions, in gaming revenue wouldn’t it make sense to expect them to share this money and help with any funding issues?
AP reporters are no more ashamed to lie than Democratic and RINO politicians are.
So the USA (taxpayers) are expected to totally fund all aspects of life for those whose ancestors were American Indians.
That must stop. The idea of a sovereign nation within a sovereign nation is stupid.
Peter Kirsanow, the only Republican on the Civil Rights Commission, disagreed that money will solve what he acknowledged are serious problems in Indian Country. He said it’s unreasonable and impossible for the federal government to funnel money to tribes to maintain a middle-class lifestyle, and sometimes tribes work against themselves.None of the 19th-century treaties could ever be as socialistic as the 1957 Civil Rights Act, though.
The standards of living are different now than in the 19th century when many treaties were signed, he said.
“The best thing Congress can do for Indians and non-Indians is to reform the laws to treat Indians the same as non-Indians, no better and no worse,” he wrote in the report. …
Welfare payments from generation to generation are a terrible waste of money.
Nothing new.
Some tribes are using casinos to fund their hospitals etc.
And a major scandal is the theft of their mineral resources.
APBS...
Funding has remained mostly flat since then, leaving tribes unable to tackle an epidemic of suicide, high dropout rates, violence against women and climate change, for example, the report said.
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This article gives me the impression that first settlers are unable to take care of themselves.
Aren’t indian nations essentially sovereign? If so what business is it of ours to fund them? They want the goodies then remerge into the US for real.
Like where?
If only they could have casinos.
There have been and continue to have lawsuits over incomes from various contracts issued by the Fed’s on Indian lands alleging sweetheart deals, failure to pay lease incomes to the tribes, etc.
Oh come on.
Who do you think swiped that money in the first place?
It goes to BIA offices and tribal leaders and disappears.
Somehow you see this as the fault of evil non-Indian swindlers?
The tribal heads take their cut and don’t give a damn where the rest of it goes; then taxpayers are told to pay it out again.
Not every tribal government is corrupt. But most are, and their own members pay for it, as do taxpayers everywhere.
My sister taught on a reservation in South Dakota many years ago and made the same observation.
Where’s my casino ?
Exactly my question.
And... What about the casinos? Do they pay US Federal and State taxes on those earnings as Las Vegas, for example, do? Curious.
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