Good post.
I won’t read George Will’s piece, but that is not to say I don’t have issues with how we treat our native peoples. I have come to the opinion over many years that we are perpetuating a deep and residing injustice by keeping American Indians separate. I think that someone somehow needs to take a stand and resolve to discontinue the reservation concept of all the separation that that entails. It would be nice and consistent if all laws applied to all our peoples. How to do that without further (yet more) injustices to them is the rub. Hopefully, minds greater than mine (which isn’t saying a whole lot) can conceive of a way to equitably bring them into the the fold and afford them equal justice under the law. Maybe I’m just dreaming?
They do acrue extra benefits which non Native Americans don't have.
I won’t read George Will’s piece, but that is not to say I don’t have issues with how we treat our native peoples. I have come to the opinion over many years that we are perpetuating a deep and residing injustice by keeping American Indians separate. I think that someone somehow needs to take a stand and resolve to discontinue the reservation concept of all the separation that that entails. It would be nice and consistent if all laws applied to all our peoples. How to do that without further (yet more) injustices to them is the rub. Hopefully, minds greater than mine (which isn’t saying a whole lot) can conceive of a way to equitably bring them into the the fold and afford them equal justice under the law. Maybe I’m just dreaming?
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You are so right. I would abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Give the tribes the rez lands, welcome them to the US and let them have abilities to move around and get lives instead of being stuck to the ball and chain or the rez system which basically gives government hacks jobs.