Posted on 09/25/2014 9:11:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Navajo Nation is poised receive $554 million from the federal government over mismanagement of tribal resources in the largest settlement of its kind for a single American Indian tribe.
Much of the land on the 27,000-square-mile reservation has been leased for things like farming, grazing, oil and gas development, mining and housing. The leases once were largely overseen by the government, which mismanaged the revenue and failed to properly invest and account for it, according to the tribe. …
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Bureau of Indian Affairs? Our Government? Mismanagement? Say it ain’t so! lol
MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND
“Geronimo’s Cadillac”
They put Geronimo in jail down South
Where he couldn’t look a gift horse in a mouth
Sergeant, Sergeant don’t you feel
There’s something wrong with your automobile
Warden, Warden, listen to me
Be brave and set Geronimo free
Governor, Governor, ain’t it strange
You never see a car on the Indian range
Oh boys take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac
Oh boys I wanna see it for real
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s automobile
Take me, take me, take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s (Cadillac)
Warden, Warden, don’t you know
The prisoners ain’t got no place to go
It took ol’Geronimo by storm
They took the badges from his uniform
Jesus told me and I believe it’s true
The redmen are in the sunset too
They stole their land and they won’t give it back
And they sent Geronimo a Cadillac
Oh boys take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac
Oh boys I wanna see it for real
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s automobile
Take me, take me, take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s (Cadillac)
They put Geronimo in jail down South
Where he couldn’t look a gift horse in a mouth
Sergeant, Sergeant don’t you feel
There’s something wrong with your automobile
Warden, Warden, listen to me
Be brave and set Geronimo free
Governor, Governor, ain’t it strange
You never see a car on the Indian range
Oh boys take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac
Oh boys I wanna see it for real
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s automobile
Take me, take me, take me back
I wanna ride in Geronimo’s (Cadillac)
Your tax dollars at work:
1. Take land from people
2. Give it to other people
3. Manage it for the new people
4. Pay the new people on their new land
5. Help the invest the money you give them
6. Pay them more when you don’t make them enough free money
7. Run out of money to give them
8. Take more money from the first people
9. Give it to the next people
10. Set precedent
11. Repeat.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS!
Filling the ATM for all sorts of ‘unfortunate’ people!
Well if there is one group of people that learned the hard way to not trust the Feds...
Frankly, I would 100 times the Navajo receive half a billion than whomever raked the Federal grant from Solyndra into their pocket. Just about the same $$ size.
That’s a lotta fire water!
(obama inauguration poem, 2009)
Yep, if you believe you can trust the government, just ask any Indian about that.
Yup. Do you suppose they might eventually get rid of this 40 year-old worthless agency that spend half their appropriation on staff?
It’s Michael Murphy...
It was covered by several artists............
Red, that'd be Michael Martin Murphy ... you must be from up north.
From Wiki:
Cover versions
A cover version by Jeff Stevens and the Bullets peaked at number 53 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1987.
“Geronimo’s Cadillac” has also been recorded by Hoyt Axton, Cher, Claire Hamill, Jacques Kloes (nl), Lost Gonzo Band, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Dick Gaughan, Mary McCaslin, Chris Leslie and Johnny Rivers.
Native Indian singer Bill Miller performs “Geronimo’s Cadillac” on his 1992 live album Reservation Road.
Southern Man, and it was recorded by several artists after Michael Murphy’s original. See previous post.......
Navajo Nation 1
Mafia 0
I have no problem with the Navajos receiving this. They don’t have much of anything.....
The fact that someone covered a tune doesn’t mean much. That’s like saying Jimi Henrix wrote The Star Spangled Banner...
I have no problem with the Navajos receiving this. They don’t have much of anything.....
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Less than 5% will trickle down to the Chapter House level.......
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