57 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Urge Senate to Nix Sacred Land Giveaway

Indian Country Today Media Network ^ | December 12, 2014 | by Gale Courey Toensing

[TBP]

I agree with the tribes on this.

[righttackle44]

It's not a matter of what they can do instead of doing something else. Their commitment is to their sacred lands. It's like the government swooping into your hometown and taking away your Baptist and Catholic churches. So, why not use the sites of the now-gone Baptist and Catholic churches to plant gardens? See how there is no sine non qua for the tribes merely to swap off their land and establish mining companies?

[LaRueLaDue]

“We were at a pueblo in NM years ago. Taking their picture was “forbidden” because they would lose their souls or some such BS.”

Yes, you are right. That is BS. I think you are mixing up mythical Amazonian tribes with Pueblo Indians here.

I grew up there, and it is more an issue of not having their homes traipsed through like public zoos with no privacy at all, rather than “losing their souls” or other such ludicrous nonsense.

And I don’t begrudge their making money through tourism and other methods. They have been kicked to the side and p!$$ed on by governments and people for hundreds of years. They deserve some way of exacting revenge or punishment for their losses over the years. (Think casinos....)

[TigersEye]

It’s not their land.

[hal ogen]

Maybe they could reject the dependency they have, leave the “reservations” and assimilate into society.