“And i recently heard an 80 year old Texan say something that stopped me cold. He commented on the illegal Mexican flood, saying something along the lines of how it is nothing more than the resurgence of the Indians. (Mexican culture being basically almost nothing but American Indian)
Interesting view.”
Interesting, but wrong. The reconquista crowd would like you to believe that Mexicans and USA Indians were ‘all the same’. In the 1800’s, when my relatives lived at Mt. Tabor, Rusk county, Texas, they had plantations,
beautiful homes,were wealthy & Christian, were educated better than most Americans and wanted nothing but to be under the laws of the Constitution like anyone else in this nation.
In another post, you said: “If an indian family could own property instead of holding in common, they could build equity, they could live the American dream. They are denied the single greatest engine of wealth, home ownership.”
Absolutely correct! One group of Cherokees tried for decades to do away with the tribal land system, and most of them were killed for it...by other Cherokees.
From the book, “Jesus Wept” An American Story, Chapt. 16
“Boudinot and Bell were leading advocates for the abolition of the tribal land system of the Indians. They and others wished to have the lands owned in severalty, which is ownership of real property by an individual as an individual; the same right to property as other Americans. They also championed the establishment of United States Courts in Indian Territory, and the abandonment of the tribal governments.
“In the 1800’s, when my relatives lived at Mt. Tabor, Rusk county, Texas, they had plantations, ...”
I had family in Rusk County, TX, but they were not wealthy. Eventually, they migrated to Holdenville, OK.
Did you write the book? How much is it?