Posted on 04/24/2017 8:58:20 AM PDT by servo1969
Cry me a river...really.
I heard, from the lips of a Tribal chief, the following direct quote:
“Biggest mistake the Red Man made was taking a penny of the White Man’s money. That’s what broke our spirit, and why I have more people in drug rehab on this reservation than I do working at Tribal enterprises.
Do not come in here and tell me if I build it here, it will bring jobs. I have jobs in my businesses that nobody will take because it is easier to live in their shitty homes and take a Tribal check.”
We could not believe our ears - and the chief was a big Obama guy, as they all are here in the People’s Soviet of Washington.
I once asked ANOTHER Tribal chief, “With all the money you generated with the casinos at various reservations in the 1990s, why didn’t you just form a Tribal Nations Bank, and fund your own development and tell the US banks to shove it? That way you don’t run into collateral problems that tie Tribal land up as a capital guarantee?”
“Because we don’t trust each other. There would be so much fraud, so fast, that it would fall over inside of five years and we’d be asking for a bailout. Not joking.”
In both of those cases, I was speechless. Both chiefs just looked at me gaping, laughed a little bit, and shook their heads.
Education in business you can’t get at Harvard.
As it has been since before Columbus set foot here..............
I know.
Nobody talks about how the native tribes in NA were enslaving each other prior to us showing up. Nobody talks about how warring tribes in Africa (multiple countries) would kidnap enemies and sell them to the Dutch to be taken to the US.
I would love, LOVE, to see a scholarly economic paper entitled:
“Economic impact of abolition on African Economic Development.”
As someone once wrote, “The white man didn’t do anything that the natives weren’t doing to each other before he got there.”....................
The Indians in AZ are trying to stop the wall here. Probably for a “shakedown” The Indians can KMA !
They are already doing that.
And because of the way things are arranged they are doing it with the blessing and protection of the US government.
At least the land remains intact.
In fact they are now adding to the list of "stuff you may not do". There are now areas you cannot collect firewood, forage, hunt, fish or even walk on.
“Only in the sense that it is not being used for anything.”
That can and should be temporary.
“In fact they are now adding to the list of “stuff you may not do”. There are now areas you cannot collect firewood, forage, hunt, fish or even walk on.”
I wonder if our president is aware of this situation.
Don't let it get you down. You ought to be proud of and hopeful for your daughter.
In my home area the tribal government owns mineral rights and has oil income flowing in, as do many individual tribal members.
That kind of money can bring real trouble but it can lift people out of despair as well.
In my lifetime (largely because of the oil boom) I have seen the town go from virtually NO Indian job-holders along main street, to many, many shopworkers and some shop- and business-owners too.
Indian ranchers in the area often do well, because they know animals, because they own their own operations.
The great threat now is meth and opiates, which has devasted some in my area and even more in nearby Montana (where there aren't the oil jobs).
It can be really tough, nearly impossible sometimes, to get a young Indian man or woman off the Rez to learn about the outside world.
The ticket to success, not surprisingly, is a strong family and also exposure to and work with private businesses.
So many native kids my age are dead now, from booze back then; nowadays it is usually drugs.
But now many are coming out whole too, more all the time. I played sports with Indian students, football, golf, track, wrestling and basketball, with team and individual state honors often coming our way.
Believe me, there is NO DAMNED LOSER GENE.
F them.
I believe 90+ % of the Fed Bureau of Indian Affairs are Indian. The freakin’ Indians need to get a grip.
Amen.
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