Judge asked to strip Interior Department of massive Indian trust fund{money was lost, stolen }

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department should be stripped of control of royalties from Indian lands because it continues to mismanage hundreds of millions of dollars, the Indians' attorneys contended Friday.

"Endless broken promises, chronic half-truths, outright lies to this court, and the fumbling paralysis" of Interior Secretary Gale Norton and other senior officials show the department cannot correct the historical mismanagement and is unfit to manage the money, wrote attorney Dennis Gingold.

The South lost the war because it did not believe in it. Had it done so, it would have fought as Northerners fought the revolution, and it could not have been defeated. The North elected not to prosecute because the South was perched on mass insurrection with the KKK troubles, and it was in the end a wise decision, though it did cost the south mightily in terms of letting linger on for another century in high illiteracy and poverty generated from ignorance.

"As Northerners fought the Revolution"?

There was virtually no fighting in the North after 1777, thanks largely to the presence of a French army in the vicinity of New York. As for lingering effects and Reconstruction , much of this was due to the corrupt bargin struck between North and South, to wit: You keep the blacks caged up in the South and the cotton farms going, and we will let you rule your local affairs.

Is that nit wit in 62 an example of who posts here?

The battle of King's Mountain, fought October 7th, 1780, proved to be the turning point in the British Southern campaign. The American Continental army suffered successive defeats at Charleston, Waxhaws, and Camden, South Carolina, in the summer of 1780. By the fall, only the voluntary militia units remained in the field to oppose the armies of Cornwallis.

To recruit and equip militia loyal to the British cause, Cornwallis sent Major Patrick Ferguson into the western Carolinas. He was to raise a loyal militia army and suppress the remaining Patriot militia. Intending to cow the Patriots, in September he sent a proclamation to the mountain settlements, telling them to lay down their arms, or he would march his army west, and "lay waste the countryside with fire and sword."

The result was the march of the famous Overmountain men from the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River across the mountains in search of Ferguson. Overcoming hunger, weather, wrangling, and intrigue, the Patriots attacked and destroyed Ferguson's Loyalists at Kings Mountain.

The Patriot army, nominally under the command of William Campbell from Virginia, contained strong leaders who managed to combine their efforts. John Sevier would go on to serve as Tennessee's first governor. Isaac Shelby would be Kentucky's first governor. Benjamin Cleveland would serve as a civic leader and judge in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Joseph Winston, Joseph McDowell, Andrew Hampton, William Chronicle, and Joseph Hambright all led troops from North Carolina. William Hill, Edward Lacey, and James Williams led contingents from South Carolina. William Candler led a small group from Georgia.

Charles McDowell from North Carolina helped organize the army. But he stepped aside before the battle to preserve a united Patriot army. (quoted from a site that I will post as soon as I learn how.)

At King's Mountain there were only about 1000-1200 on each side. Half the patriots were from Tennessee, the rest from NC and SC. The Mountain boys permanently threw a monkey wrench into British warfare in the South, and sent Ferguson packing.

No, Howlin, it was a little lady, I think, from one of the Dakotas or Montana. At the moment my mind is a blank, but she has been working on this for some years. She finally got a hearing and the ball has been rolling ever since. She's worked hard and a lot of the time alone often she has been threatened and some have tried to intimidate her, but she wouldn't let it stop her. Darn, I can't pull up her name, she's the one who has pointed out the thievery that has been going one since the late 1800s.

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