[JimVT]

I am a NATIVE AMERICAN.

I was born here.

The so-called 'native americans' who are making such a big stink about their 'land' and their 'rights' came here from Asia across the area of the Bering Strait when it was landlocked to what is now Alaska.

They deserve no more than my Irish ancestors got when they arrived.......A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE.

[Arkinsaw]

They deserve no more than my Irish ancestors got when they arrived.......A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE.

Actually, they also deserve for us to honorably fulfill the treaty obligations that we swore to and that our representatives signed. That is unless we are liars and oathbreakers.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Actually, what we deserve is for the "superior white christians" (as one poster put it) to honor their agreements with us - doesn't honor, and keeping one's word mean anything anymore???? Did it ever???? While I personally don't feel I am owed anything, and have never asked for anything, I would like to see us (and I say 'us' because I AM an American, too ya know) live up to our word, and honor the treaties we have taken part in. It's not much to ask, really, is it????

[ICE-FLYER]

I am a NATIVE AMERICAN

One of the best posts yet. I agree. I am an American. Native at that. Not hyphenated, not subjected, not PAST Italian thus and Italian-America, but only and purely American.