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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Beto... American Indians, even those who were the sons and daughters of code talkers who were critically important in the Pacific and European theaters, were not permitted to use their own language until 1967. They were forbidden from practicing their religious ceremonies until 1978. They weren’t even considered citizens of the US until 1928. Up until 1918, Californians could still collect a $5 bounty on the scalps of male diggers (Indians) or $25 for the scalps of females.

Go F off with your stupid lecture about slavery which ended entirely in this country in the 1860’s.

Oh, and how about we talk about the unpaid remittances from the Department of the Interior for mineral and resource extraction from trust lands, billions of which are decades overdue (and likely will never be paid because the boxes the records were kept in were left where flood waters could get at them...)

After all, these are contracts between the federal government and individuals and the tribes, actual constitutionally enabled and Senate approved compacts, rather than random reparation bullcrap that has been floating around since before the Navajo could (under federal law) legally use their own language to communicate among themselves.


16 posted on 06/14/2019 4:48:21 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

Slavery has never ended in the United States.
Legally condoned slavery almost but not quite ended with the emancipation proclamation.


24 posted on 06/14/2019 4:53:52 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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