“While I agree there are some radical elements in the tribe, including Russell Means, before one criticizes the attitude, it would be good to see the living conditions on some of the reservations. Many people live in the run-down facilities, and there are no jobs for those who want them. There is a liquor store just across the line out of one reservation that supplies alcohol and thus promotes the rampant alcoholism. There are poor medical facilities and schools, and most of all, no hope for the future.”
I believe because of both alcohol and diabetes, the average life expectancy of a plains indian make is about 40 years. Something definitely needs to be done - I couldn’t tell you what it should be though.
However, these “radical” leaders need to be arrested for sedition and treason.
In the 1990s I drove across northern Montana on US 2, which crosses a couple of Indian reservations. They have a custom of putting up crosses along the highway where someone has been killed. It seemed there were lots of them near the reservation boundaries...presumably most of them a result of drunk driving.
The "something" that needs to be done is to finally do NOTHING. The government has obviously "helped" enough already. Treat Indians like productive American citizens and they, for the most part, will become that. There is nothing in Indian genetics that makes them drunks or dependent. It's the way the USG has treated them, guiltily treating them as outcasts and targets of self-loathing by Manhattan liberals who would trash America at cocktail parties held on "stolen" land rather than give Indians the dignity and respect they deserve.
Liberals love creating victims. Everyone is a victim of something, but conservatives decide to be victims of nothing.