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To: Rockingham
The Brotherton and Oneida Indians were very assimilated and had made several steps to insure that they'd caught up to the Europeans.

They got kicked out anyway when the State of New York decided to steal their land and sell it to illegal aliens.

Anyway, an Indian named John Met-Oxen (many ways to spell his name) was one of Jefferson's friends. He and jefferson worked out the logic of the way things were going and decided, together, that Indians were not going to survive biologically in the Eastern states so they'd have to move West.

The Kickapoo Indians came to the same conclusion. Their efforts to get Indian people to move West were, at first, met as if they were just excessively xenophobic.

I met a gentleman on a plane years ago. He was named Joseph WInchester and it was his to find the remainder of the Eastern Kickapoo and obtain for them tribal recognition.

I guess he did that because Michigan's Eastern Kickapoo got it.

I keep the Oneida situation in the back of my mind ~ two reasons (1) I probably personally qualify for membership since I've "dug up" (that is, "found") dozens of relatives and ancestors who lived on Oneida land BEFORE the Revolution, and (2) I can bring several thousand others into the tribe with the same evidence ~ and the Oneida need more people.

Now, do they need "white people"? I have no idea, but that decision was made back in the mid 1700s ~ the Oneida themselves offered land and business to highly skilled European people. Central New York can only be improved by expansion of Indian lands!

104 posted on 08/29/2010 6:36:08 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Alas, the depredations of corrupt legislatures are not at an end. Nevertheless, the revival of vestigial Indian tribes based on dodgy ancestry for the sake of casinos and land claims strikes me as more a con than a measure of justice.


105 posted on 08/29/2010 6:50:28 AM PDT by Rockingham
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