What about Fauxcahontas?
Posted on 06/27/2013 1:15:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After years of bungling the affairs of Indian tribes—including federal government mismanagement of tribal funds and lands that resulted in dozens of lawsuits and a settlement of more than $1 billion to tribes last year—President Obama today signed an executive order creating a White House Council on Native American Affairs.
“As we work together to forge a brighter future for all Americans, we cannot ignore a history of mistreatment and destructive policies that have hurt tribal communities,” Obama stated. “This order establishes a national policy to ensure that the Federal Government engages in a true and lasting government-to-government relationship with federally recognized tribes in a more coordinated and effective manner, including by better carrying out its trust responsibilities.” …
Under ObamaCare, an Indian must be able to document his or her membership in one of the 566 American Indian and Alaska Native tribes recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. However, about 100 more tribes are recognized by states but not the federal government. Additionally, many Native Americans no longer live on reservations, nullifying membership according to some tribal rules, and other myriad rules tribe-by-tribe could also affect the ability of a person of Indian descent to get the kind of documentation ObamaCare requires.
The Associated Press found last month that up to 480,000 Native Americans who currently receive care through the Indian Health Service could be penalized under ObamaCare. …
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Dictate by Ex. Order to bypass Congress. Wake up Boehner!
Another "feed me" population.
One of the Roosevelt’s said it: “If it wasn’t for the white man, they would have annihilated themselves.”
Don’t we all ready have a Bureau of Indian Affairs under the department of the Department of the Interior? Does this Council replace them?
CC
It’s like the NLRB, which trumps anything put out by the Dept of Labor. Rule by committee edict. It’s what Marxists do.
If I read that correctly, if you are descended from Native Americans, but not recognized as a member of an approved tribe by that approved tribe, you are no longer a Native American. Seems like a paperwork version of ethnic cleansing to me.
Another toss money at the problem council. Best to let them do their own thing—mismanagement has killed more Native People with Drugs and booze than Custer and his calvalry.
“TRUST ME”
I think the Indians have heard that one before.
http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-04-04/news/texas-gambling/
A federal court had ruled that the Alabama-Coushatta had violated the terms of their recognition, which, as argued by then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn, stated that all gaming prohibited by the state of Texas was “hereby prohibited on the reservation and on lands of the tribe.” The challenge came with the full-throated support of Texas’s evangelical population, spurred on by a now-notorious lobbyist named Jack Abramoff. (Ironically, the Alabama-Coushatta remain a heavily Christian community and even forbade alcohol at their former entertainment center.)
“We already knew that when we opened, we were going to be in litigation,” Williams continues. “We were prepared for that.” The Louisiana-Coushatta, a related tribe just one state over, had been concerned about consumers opting for their Texas cousins and ended up enlisting the aid of Abramoff, the fedora-topped lobbyist later sentenced to nearly six years for conspiracy and tax evasion in 2006.
While secretly disparaging the Native Americans as “stupid mofos,” “monkeys” and “fucking troglodytes,” Abramoff used Christian connections in Texas to mobilize anti-casino forces. Through shell corporations and blatant corruption — Abramoff and his partner are believed to have received a total of $85 million from their Indian clients — the lobbyist managed to muster enough opposition to shutter the casinos of both the Alabama-Coushatta and El Paso’s Tigua tribe in 2002. Less than a year in, the Alabama-Coushatta’s best modern opportunity for self-sustenance collapsed.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/exclusive-investigative-reports/harry-reids-dirty-laundry/
Harry Reid’s Alliance with Jack Abramoff
Soon after the Jack Abramoff scandal broke, Reid took the lead in attacking Republicans for fostering a “culture of corruption.” (1)
But shortly after making these comments, it was reported that Reid took almost $68,000 from Abramoff’s firm, its PAC and its Indian casino clients. (2)
Reid then tried to distance himself from Abramoff, stating, “[D]on’t lump me in with Jack Abramoff. This is a Republican scandal. Don’t try to give any of it to me.”
It’s all about keeping them dependent, shaking them down for contributions, then laughing at them behind closed doors as you play one special interest group off another and pocket cash from both sides.
What about Fauxcahontas?
More Rat votes.
The Will of Allah™ strikes again.
Can I join the Native American Council? I was born here.
How about abolishing the whole lot?
Don’t we still have a Bureau of Indian Affairs?
I wonder haw they feel about these new developments?
Peoples' Front of Judea vs the Judean Peoples' Front.
How?
I hope that some really hacked-off devil horse in hell has adopted George Armstrong Custer as his love mate.
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