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Have you ever walked a rez?

There are a few tribes that hit it big with the casinos but most people on the reservations live in poverty like nobody else in this country knows.

This best thing my grandfather ever did was walk off the rez and make sure his children were never on the rolls. Our family has done well, my cousins are living like Bangladesh on the reservation. The feds put them on welfare using rifles and cannons then left them to starve like animals.

These lawsuits are based on legal contracts that the Feds did not fulfill in an ethical manor.

“Have you ever walked a rez?

There are a few tribes that hit it big with the casinos but most people on the reservations live in poverty like nobody else in this country knows.

This best thing my grandfather ever did was walk off the rez and make sure his children were never on the rolls. Our family has done well, my cousins are living like Bangladesh on the reservation. The feds put them on welfare using rifles and cannons then left them to starve like animals.

These lawsuits are based on legal contracts that the Feds did not fulfill in an ethical manor.”

So what's holding them on the reservation? Are they not allowed to leave? Are they not allowed to get an education or get a job or start their own business?

I'm not trying to be rude but I think this says more about the people that choose to stay there and live in poverty than the government that established the reservations in the first place. If they are living in poverty, it's there own doing not anyone Else's. Kudos to your grandfather and your family to take charge of their lives and reap the benefits of freedom in this country.

This best thing my grandfather ever did was walk off the rez and make sure his children were never on the rolls. Our family has done well, my cousins are living like Bangladesh on the reservation

Your family has "done well" because your g/father found the only cure for poverty - get as far away from government dependency as possible.

I've seen the reservations in the north/north west and west, haven't seen any of the more eastern ones but they are probably the same, just as you described,"Bangladesh on the reservation."

It's the same fate liberals had/have in mind for black people - keep them government dependent and poor and ignorant and they will vote for liberals who promise more hand outs.

I've never been to Puerto Rico but hear that it is the same way there.

Thank your g/father if he's still living, for your freedom.

Yes, I have! I grew up next to one!

They could work anywhere they wanted and because of Affirmative Action they got jobs before non-indians. They ALL got some money from the State and didn't have to live on the “reservation”. Those who chose to live on the “reservation” got a lot more money in addition to free housing on the reservation and or rent assistance if they were off the reservation. They got more than monthly money. They all got paid to breath while we had to work to live and eat! They got free food, free clothing, free health care and free education through university!

The has a Casino. The Chief and some of the tribal elders lived better than we did while others lived in shacks.