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"sorry, but 99% of Indians have little or no political power in ANY state. (not even in OK)."

So go out and get some. Stop whining.
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"frankly, the government doesn't care about the needs of Indians & never will because there are FEW of us & most are INVISIBLE to the elites."

Frankly, I don't care. Not that I am a calloused sob or that I hate Indians or anyone else for that matter. I just don't think of or worry my pretty head all day long about the plight of the Indians. I've my own plight. And I bet that's just the case for most Americans. Until something burns through our day to grab our attention (9/11), we're pretty much trying to survive to dinner-time. You're not only invisible to the elites, your just plain invisible. It's not evil Northerners, racists, blue scum or anyone else. We all can do just so much & that usually revolves around our families, communities & the occasional Clinton impeachment.
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"Pine Ridge Reservation (SD) has had several Indians starve to death this year & several die of freezing because they had no money to heat their house, ONLY because there was no work to be had, no money for food & no money for fuel"

A sad story. Tell me, whose fault is it? People die everyday. They freeze. They starve. They get hit by random bullets fired by some drunk Indian shooting up the bar that threw him out. Whose fault? The government's? The very people to whom you look for work? For money? For a way out of your miserable existence? Watie, you're ceding way too much power to them.
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"what little assistance to the "poorest of the poor" has come from (mostly) other Indians through organizations like RUNNING BRAVE & THE AMERICAN INDIAN EMERGENCY FUND."

As it should be. The federal & state governments have no business helping the poor. That's for local communities to do. Charitable orginizations. The government's job is to make it easy & attractive for the citizens to help those less fortunate. Remember, the government has no money of it's own. It's all taken (by force) from those who have it. I should be able to freely give to those whom I choose.

You keep complaining about the government's intrusion into your lives but you just can't stop looking to it for remedy of your problems. Make up your mind...

whose fault is the pitiful situation at Pine Ridge?====>the federal government's fault, that whose.

until the government allows Indians to do things for themselves , starts treating us EQUALLY as other citizens are treated & gives us our TRUST MONEY back ( about TWO BILLION DOLLARS), nothing is going to change for the better on any reservation.

you might look at the way that the BIA treats Indians. THAT is what YOU have to look forward to as a white American if the socialist/statist/LIBs get their way!

free dixie,sw