[IAMNO1]

Thanks. I'll have to read up more on this. The “separate but equal” concept in place for generations is likely holding them back in our society, especially if they are tethered on the receiving side of extra benefits (for being outcasts). Why else would anyone remain in the hellholes that are reservations? I know enough from living in Wyoming and visiting other states that reservations are no place to be in. Also, they have separate executive and judicial systems. For example, here in Wyoming a convicted murderer will now come under the jurisdiction of the tribes because of an EPA ruling expanding their territories to include where the crime was committed. It will likely be retried. Separate, but not equal, is what it seems to be to me. As I said, I'll have to dig deeper to understand it better, but am convinced that what I see doesn't pass the muster for humanity, especially for the original occupants who deserve better as a people.

[kearnyirish2]

Indians are destroyed by the same policies that destroyed blacks; if they so choose, they may live an unproductive life of leisure which often results in destructive behavior.

Cut the money off, and both could grow up and share fully in the American experience. In fact, before the payments to the “wards of the state” and the War on Poverty, I’d say both groups HAD shared more fully (if not perfectly) in that experience; both have been reduced to childlike dependence since.