Oh, I know.... like I said, I can see both sides of the issue, and it's unfortunate that the non-indians of the area have gotten caught in the middle in the battle between the state and the indians - I suppose you can only push a people so far before they react in a way that might not be right... and that's fair to say for both sides of the issue...
Of course, looking at some of the truely ignorant comments on this thread ("...Where's Custer when you need him...", "...Give them the AFghanistan treatment..." etc...)... well, it makes me pretty ill...
Yeah, that's the latest shame of it - the folks caught in the middle. The Senecas have a suit going now claiming treaty rights to all of Grand Island, and a while back one of the tribal leaders was quoted saying something along the lines of
when they won, they were just gonna throw all the white folks right the hell out. That kind of rhetoric doesn't help either.
Fortunately, since then, I think they've backed off a little bit and allowed for the possibility that they might accept some other form of compensation if they won - a money settlement or land somewhere else. And I think everyone might need to just cool off here in upstate just a bit...