Posted on 05/27/2019 5:37:05 PM PDT by Theoria
For the legion of rich and famous in New York, the unofficial start of summer means migrating east by luxury vehicle to the Hamptons, that slice of exclusivity at the end of Long Island.
But this Memorial Day weekend they were greeted with a jarring new sight along an otherwise piney, bucolic stretch of Sunrise Highway, the main artery leading to the Hamptons: two six-story illuminated billboards being hastily constructed by a local Native American tribe just in time for the high season.
Tall enough to rise above much of the tree line of this state roadway, the twin billboards — with bright electronic display panels operating around the clock — are about as far from the standards of the Hamptons as could be imagined.
The billboards are being put up by the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a tribe that for many centuries before this area was settled by Europeans in the 1600s occupied wide expanses of what is now some of the priciest real estate in the world and a summertime playground for the 1 percent.
Besides the 1,550-member tribe’s modest reservation nearby, the small parcel spanning the highway at the billboards’ site is nearly the only land the Shinnecock still retain. The tribe is partnering with an outdoor advertising company to run local ads on the billboards, as well as national campaigns for high-end brands like Rolex, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Its members are determined to use the revenue as an economic engine to revitalize the tribe.
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Trump should rent it for 2020.
Would this be the Wocka Wocka Tribe?
The NY Times taking shots at the elite is like pelosi taking shots at folks with dementia.
Long Island... Shinnecock Indians at one end, MS13 in the middle, and a big chunk of the middle east at the other end...
I’m sick of the Indians and their antics.
Hey, it is lawful commerce, right?
Casinos is the word, if they want money..
Probably better than the old hershey highway in pennsylvania
Considering that the people who live in the Hamptons despise everything that normal people hold dear, I’m going to side with the Indians.
Lighten up, Francis! This looks like capitalism at work to me.
Well the Hamptonians could spend a few millions fighting it but only the lawyers and Indians will win.
Indians are from Asia. If anything they are Asian Americans. If you were born in America you are a native American.
The Shinnecock are rather “dark” for Native Americans
You have a point there...Payback after 375 years is hell.
Although those people who live in the Hamptons now would be the last to brave the New World.
I remember Hampton Bays in the 1940s to 1950s and it was a rural, hunting and fishing, milk the cows twice daily wonderful place to visit. Now, the Hollywood asswipes and liberal Eastern faux people populate the South Fork.
What a pity.
Native Americans do not exist so I can’t side with “them.”
You got it.
All this is, is a bunch of uber rich folks, from the city wanting control. Most of them, in public and on camera, would be supporting the Indians in all their endeavors in the name of fairness, justice and equality. But, now that the Shinnecock’s are doing something outside the Left&Right limits that have been set for them by those very same uber, rich folks from NYC, there are problems.
They should know that all they’re supposed to do is sit in the corner and color.
Why did the school systems stop teaching aboriginal Americans and replace it with native Americans?
In the 50s, you were a native American if born here and an aboriginal American if your ancestors were here before Columbus.
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