American Indians receive free housing, pay no federal or state taxes, receive a federal stipend, a state stipend, free education in state colleges, free health care, and receive royalties from the Indian casinos. You ought to be more thankful to White America for paying your way. We are giving you your reparations and have been for a long time.
No they don't.
There are some welfare programs which will provide subsidized housing on the reservations just as there are in every American city. The housing is in short supply and only a very few qualify or have access to it. Many tribes are building their own housing units with profits from tribal enterprises or receipts from extraction agreements or other funds but they are are comparatively rare and rarely free. No one is entitled to free housing by virtue of being an Indian.
States do not have authority to impose an income tax on income derived wholly within the boundaries of a reservation but can and do tax income derived from working outside those boundaries. They also tax income within the boundaries of the reservation if the supporting entity is based outside the reservation. Because of the restrictions, few Indians are exempt from state income tax.
Individual Indians pay Federal income tax at the same rate everyone else does regardless of where the income was earned. The tribe as an entity and some of the businesses that a tribal government may own may be exempt.
There is no Federal or State "stipend" for being an Indian. Occasionally there are trust payments for use of Indian land or legal settlements but these are usually distributed through the tribal government and they come from funds owed the Indians. Indians can qualify for food stamps or other Federal programs in exactly the same way anyone else can.
Indians are not entitled to free education at state colleges. They may find programs or scholarships dedicated to that purpose but they are rare. Because of circumstances Indians often end up subsidizing colleges for white students.
Most of the profits from tribal enterprises (casinos) are retained at the tribal level. They fund the government and general welfare projects. Some portion of the profits may be passed on to individual enrolled members of a tribe but that is limited to the members of that tribe and is not a general entitlement.
Indians receive free health care within the boundaries of a reservation and only for enrolled members. Generally it is poor quality and plagued with problems. Off the reservation they are in the same boat with everyone else.
I don’t know what the source of your information is and I question where there is a source outside of your own mind but, you might want to consider educating yourself on Indian Affairs.
The Indians DO pay Federal and State income taxes. They do not receive free educations although the Casinos are providing some scholarships. They have had free health care which mainly was due to the fact in the early days white doctors wouldn’t treat them.
Many of the cemeteries are on Indian homelands. We have buried (Patriot Guard Rider) four Native Americans from Oklahoma in WOT and they were either buried in Indian cemeteries or on the homeplace - Do you know why? Because in previous years they couldn’t be buried in white cemeteries. As a result the Indians had to bury their fallen wherever they could.
I challenge you to go to Anadarko, OK and tell the Kiowa Black Leggings Society just how lucky they are. FYI, that society is composed on Native Americans who are veterans.
The Code Talkers and many more have fought in defense of this country and most work and earn a living just like you and me.
Wow....!!!
I am an descendant of Chesaugan, a headman of the St. Joseph Band of the Potawatomi tribe whose signature can be found on five Potawatomi treaties, including the 1795 Treaty of Greenville.
I have deceased family by the names of KaushKauMoNgine, Ahkenepoweh, Mahteenose Oskinanonotame, Shanote, Neghase, Motnoe....
I certainly don't receive free education, free housing, nor royalties...and gawd knows...I pay taxes every flipping 1/4!!
You are wrong..........
So....I await your reply.
I see that you are young, so I’ll grant you leeway for misinformation. But where did you get such mistaken information?
I’ve paid federal and state tax since I was younger than you are now. I receive no stipend of any kind, nor is my house free, believe me. I paid for the state college I went to and receive no casino money. The health care does exist for tribes, and I’ve commented about it on other threads regarding our current national debate over government intrusion into such. It’s the perfect example for federal health care, perfectly faulty.