Posted on 09/04/2017 10:11:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
The last time I saw a hot squaw she was singing to her grandmother, who was a tree.
And she was a cartoon.
I have car camped all over the Western US and have been on many reservations. I have observed Indians up close and personal. I’ve talked to them and seen their homes. I have given them rides.
My take is that overwhelmingly they simply do not take care of and value the things they are given by me, the taxpayer. Thus, I say screw ‘em.
The biggest injustice by far is the one perpetrated against my wallet.
“hopelessness of life on indian reservations”
That’s not anyone’s problem but their own. They can make whatever they want with their indian nations. They get loads of US cash too!
It’s like the Israelis that made a home out of a desert but the muslims can’t seem to do it, or the blacks that killed white farmers, took their lands, and then starved because they couldn’t farm.
“They just get by on land they were deposited on, little if any enterprise. “
No one created an enterprise for the white man. He created it himself. Indians can do the same ting. No one is topping them, and they have loads of US cash to do it.
“As I understand it, from Indian friends, when kids come of age, they are given checks for $35,000 by the gubmint. They buy big trucks and drugs. And live miserable stupid addicted lives thereafter.”
I knew an Indian from a northern California tribe. That’s exactly what happened to him; got lots of money, bought a truck, and went broke. He ended up joining the Air Force to get out of that place.
“Meaning we poured money and goods on them and within one generation they were ruined. Drunk, depressed and hopeless.”
It wasn’t our money that did that. I lived there, I know. They go to American colleges and get advanced degrees then go back home and do nothing. My maid had a Master’s degree in English. She preferred working as a maid. The marina captain had an Electrical Engineering degree. Preferred fishing.
Excellent point.
My experience confirms your assessment.
Reading the comments, especially from those who had actual contact or experience with these communities, I get the feeling that the Indians are essentially rural, tribal people, out of place with Western culture.
Before everyone screams “racist,” let me insist — I don’t mean anything derogatory. I feel the same way about many societies everywhere — Latin America, Africa/Middle East — even some whites in Appalachia. They’ve been kept dependent by either government handouts or rigid village or family codes. Part of the problem is possibly genetic, part of it environmental. But some just don’t belong in the Western world.
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