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It's time the Indian Nation, whether in NY or elsewhere, stopped pretending they are not part of American society.

After all, the Indians are perfectly able to enjoy the bounty and protection offered by American society, by the American military, and they should be willing to pay taxes the same as everyone else.

If the Indians were still clinging to their old ways, living out in the country in a teepee and eating buffalo as a means of rejecting United States sovereignty, then maybe I could understand them trying to remain separate.

But this treaty business is simply a charade, an effort to keep all the casino profits and tobacco profits that, if they were any other ethnicity, they would have to pay.

[Henrietta]

"It's time the Indian Nation, whether in NY or elsewhere, stopped pretending they are not part of American society.

After all, the Indians are perfectly able to enjoy the bounty and protection offered by American society, by the American military, and they should be willing to pay taxes the same as everyone else.

If the Indians were still clinging to their old ways, living out in the country in a teepee and eating buffalo as a means of rejecting United States sovereignty, then maybe I could understand them trying to remain separate.

But this treaty business is simply a charade, an effort to keep all the casino profits and tobacco profits that, if they were any other ethnicity, they would have to pay. "


Exactly. This is what we've all been trying to explain to Arkinsaw and Fairbanks, but they Just Don't Get It. It's all about money, and not about anything else. It's about whining, attempting to make Euro-Americans feel guilty about the fact that we won the wars and conquered the land.