[fish hawk]

You are right on with your statements. I would venture to say that my tribe (Yurok, N. Calif. ) are probably about 90% Democrat voters. We are a little over 5000 Indians and the largest tribe in California. We do not have a casino although we have been okay ed and one is being started as we speak. That will not make us rich because our tribe is pretty much isolated from large communities. Most tribes have been on the dole for so many years now that they actually depend on it as a way of life. A large portion of our people live off the Rez so as to find jobs. The ones that cling to the Rez are pretty much welfare Indians. They have no incentive to better their lives.

The Democrats, every election year, love the Indians and promise them the moon but after the election, they get nothing until the next election and then they get a new promise. This has been going on for a couple hundred years and the Tribes never catch on. Of course you know that the White People put them in this situation and keep them there. There is plenty of fault to go around. Socialism works on the Reservations because they have a never ending supply of tax payers money to keep the system going.

[PIF]

And the tribal ruling families (who collect all that money) have a never ending supply of poor indians to point to when those ruling families need more money ... at least that’s how it works in the Pacific North West.