Or ....
Posted on 04/24/2017 8:58:20 AM PDT by servo1969
FedGov always screws over the people they are trying to “help”.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” — as Reagan said: these are chilling words.
In a sane world, Native American Indians should be wealthy beyond imagination..................
Indian tribes should not be recognized as sovereign. All special rights for Indians should be abolished. The government should set up a commission to determine the just compensation to be paid under the 5th amendment to the members of Indian tribes for the loss of these rights.
We should all of us be Americans first.
Yep. I actually DID know all about that stuff, and I didn’t have to research for a book.
Want to help the indians? Find some way to invalidate all the treaties and end the reservations. Start treating them just like all other Americans protected by the U.S. constitution - no better and no worse - and they’ll start improving.
But not until then.
It’s terrible.
Sometimes the white man actually makes the tribes go to war against each other in court to determine who gets to build the next billion dollar gambling casino.
Or ....
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” — as Reagan said: these are chilling words.
You could take this entire article, change every instance of the word ‘government’ to ‘Democrat’, and it would be even more accurate...............
Her grandson was about to become a minister...in Canada. She said all the good ones leave.
She also said the parents don't discipline their children and they just drink and do drugs and get into trouble.
A shame to hear her talk about her own and she's very hurt that they cause their own demise.
IIRC, she was helping the Tribe to write their history and has since passed away.
, the more I realized that, between the 19th century and today, nothing has changed: it’s still the government.
Yeah, the Government is forcing the Indians to drink and molest children. What a crock of crap!
I agree. Any one who is all for socialism needs to visit an Indian reservation.
Why the American Indian has squandered away the opportunity the govt had given them is astounding.
The capitalist wild card they were handed got tossed under the table.
No federal law against booze, cigarettes, gambling, health care, you name it. Everything that the U.S. and its states tax and over charge you for or make illegal could be made into a luxury escape rejuvinatory paradise for the willing person with disposable cash.
Instead they settle for 30 beads a month from their slave masters and eternal poverty.
Of course that’s why. The whole idea of creating a “sovereign nation” within another nation that’s not really a sovereign nation, is stupid.
Either they’re American, or they’re not. The sad reality is that they were conquered, and almost wiped out. That cannot be changed. Putting them in a physical or virtual reservation, creating special laws and privileges for them, and letting them create their own laws, is a colossally idiotic idea.
Who has the courage to change this? No one.
In the end, political arrangements matter a lot less than spiritual ones.
At one point, many American Indian tribes were pretty staunchly Christian, the early evangelists having succeeded. But God has no grandchildren, and faith faded, and in the meantime Christians started becoming shy of asserting their faith to all comers.
I hope faith revival comes even to American Indians. Without embracing God in faith, we’re simply goners, playing shuffleboard to amuse ourselves on the way to an everlasting enmity against the God of love, the common enmity of humanity when it was born.
Whatever political sovereignty issues may or may not apply, the bigger trouble is that we humans think we’re sovereign over everything that matters. No we aren’t. We are at best, servants of God. It could be worse; we could be servants of the devil, like we all are at first.
She also owns a piece on a reservation in Canada by inheritance. Said she's never been there and she has no heir.
She works and pays taxes just like you or myself.
They are American citizens.
Nothing is stopping them from being successful except themselves.
Look at the steel walkers!!
Casinos is not the way....
I’ve never understood the necessity of living in a racially pure community, quarantined from the rest of the world.
The Indian Reorganization Act was more than 80 years ago. Get up off your a$$es, sober up, join mainstream society and assimilate just like everyone else did.
My best inheritance from my father was, “you have a smart father and a smart mother, you figure it out.” Most of the time he was bragging himself up a bit but kids take things literally. So that meant I was smart and could figure it out.
Todays kids and ethnics are told, “you are too damn dumb to take care of your self.” and they take it literally.
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