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To: Right Wing Professor
No treaty lasts in perpetuity. The world changes.

We can't keep the treaties, and still adhere to the constitution. How is an exclusive right to participate in a tribal election, based on race, consistent with the 14th amendment? How can we justify different laws for a white man and an Indian who live beside each other on a reservation?


Treaties last until one side or the other breaks them or they are renegotiated. We have justified and rationalized breaking Indian treaties many times. Regardless of how it is justified and rationalized it is still dishonorable behavior no matter how convenient it is to us.
15 posted on 10/29/2003 4:16:01 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
All our treaties are belong to us.
52 posted on 10/29/2003 6:17:05 PM PST by Binghamton_native
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