Or ....
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 ....
, 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!
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.
Around these parts the odds at the local casinos are always in favor of the house.
A good start would be eliminating the bureau ofindian affairs.
How much of your money has this crappola wasted.
I have spent most of my life around Plains Indians.
They are “Users” and not “Producers”. That is their history. They would use up all the resources in one area and then they would move on. They would also take resources from others if they could. This was possible when you had groups of a couple hundred roaming across a mostly deserted continent.
Won’t work now. The User way of life is as outmoded as the lance and travois.
Now, they use up their resources and then start begging the white man for more resources. The Democrat Party takes advantage of them because they can get the Indians to vote five times in each election for the Democrats.
The reservations, and the Democrats, have turned them into beggars.
This whole subject makes me sad. I am proud of my daughter’s 20% native population and I don’t like to hear from FReepers that her genes are loser genes.
Rather, I believe it is the system, the environment, and not the genes that allowed such a passive culture.
Yes get rid of the BIA. Let the Native Americans run things. Nothing wrong with having their own identity either. No one is asking the Welsh and Scots to give up their identity and become English. I have met Native Americans that are the hardest workers I have ever seen and yes there are some who suffer from alcohol and drug abuse. It is a complex problem but things could improve if the government let them run things as they see fit.
“Let Indians do what they want with the land they own.”
Corrupt tribal officials would, sooner or later, loot the tribes six ways from Sunday.
Native Americans needs some help - the first is to get the rights for minerals and oil and gas from their lands. Next is to use the money to start small business - not casinos. The tribal leaders needs to help the members and that would be building health centers...
Yeah, take my aunt, her dad was Ho Chunk, they got casinos, so as 1/2 she gets annually more money for doing nothing than you get for working your butt off. And her kids being 1/4 each get half of what she gets. It absolutely sucks for them, they call me every week crying about how terrible it is to get free money because they belong to an ethnic group that is allowed to open casinos in states that otherwise don’t allow gambling. Won’t somebody please help them? Won’t somebody please stop this oppression? :(
