Utes?
Is it a coincidence that these three are among the best-run and prosperous tribes in the country?
James Watt was correct. The tribal system is the engine of indian poverty. It’s a relic of the 1800s. Reservations need to be broken up save for a SMALL area for cultural reasons. The tribe should collectively own no more than a city does inside it’s city limits.
If indians AS INDIVIDUALS owned their own houses, property, fields, and minerals,,,and could sell them to ANYONE, they would be wealthy. Their poverty is self inflicted under the guise of culture. Thats their choice to make,, but don’t come to me when culture impoverishes.
The tribal system treats individual indians as children. And the mere fact that one can run home to the res when life gets tough, acts as an anchor to indian achievement. Americans of Euro descent have nowhere to run back to where they will be given a place to live. It’s quite an incentive.
Utes?