Posted on 06/13/2014 6:31:45 PM PDT by don-o
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) - President Barack Obama on Friday became only the third U.S. sitting president in eight decades to set foot in Indian Country, encountering both the wonder of Native American culture and the struggle of tribal life on a breeze-whipped afternoon in the prairie. Amid snapping flags and colorful, befeathered dancers, Obama declared that there was more the U.S. could do to help Native Americans.
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I thought there must be some reason they picked that particular time span.
Thanks for your response!
Please do not help us Mr. President. Being a Native American is already fraught with difficulty. Please do not send your help we cannot survive it. Our people were once proud, independent and well educated, (as Cherokee, we even had a written language) yet wave after wave of white government help has taken our pride, we have become children in our eyes as well as yours. Please we have suffered enough.
B.S. I was born feet from the Menomonee "Reservation" in Wisconsin...there are a whole lot of people who understand what goes on in these enclaves...the reservation was turned into Menomonee County for a period of time and then reverted to a reservation...I'm not certain of that history but the sooner that reservations are done away with, the better!!!!!
I’ve always thought her name looked like a an anagram.
Did Warren go with him?
I do it all the time, but a victim knows who he is....the race card doesn’t work with me. I’m a freeman.
when Red can get ahead ....
another shoe about to drop
Like what, play more bingo?
I just handed over $300 to their casinos in CO last week, I did my part.
that is the standard flippant statement of most white people that do not have a clue as to reservation life.
Please educate us about reservation life. I am not being flippant in asking. I admit to knowing nothing about reservation life. I know that there are some reservations in which people live in poverty, but I don’t know why this is. I don’t know if tribes have tried different types of economic development aside from casinos.
I would appreciate any insight you can give to us. Thanks.
How much have we wasted on the Bureau of freaken Indian Affairs?
Entire waste of time money and energy.
Where’s my casino ?
I recently visited Indian reservations on the Olympic peninsula. They are sea faring folk, fishermen.
They seemed to be doing pretty good. They have been fisher folk for ever
The Indians at Prior Lake, Minnesota take home over $1 million a year from the casino they own in the Twin Cities metro.
That’s $1 million for every man, woman and child on the “reservation.”
Years ago, it was a place for bingo games and cut rate smokes.
You nailed it!
“They own their land, have btheir own laws and own the natural resources, have casinos and tax free “smoke” shops. The BIA is 90% indian employees (who steal our money and give it to indians. What more do these people want???”
I think this is just a lead-in to what has gone on for sixty years already: black Americans will be awarded the same status as wards of the state. What has been tried isn’t working: free housing, food, diplomas/degrees, jobs...
Nauseating, huh?
A little anti-American pity party. Staged by....the President of the United States.
I sat next to a Navajo girl in differential equations in college. She was studying to be a doc, almost certain to go thru med school because of native american carve out slots at U of A med school.
She didnt have to take that, its not necessary for a biology oriented medical school curriculum. She just did. Did fine too - wouldnt call her a brilliant mathematician but she pulled an A by dint of effort.
So whats the guy talking about?
She could be a drunk lying in the gutter in Flagstaff after another night in the 66 bar. But instead she chose to work hard and take advantage of the opportunities.
How bout that, Mr. I Blame Whitey.
But you’re not a true FReeper, I guess...............
Is there any group he won’t pander to? Of course other than conservatives.
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