Posted on 11/09/2006 11:31:54 AM PST by Tulsa Ramjet
Just another liberal Democrat Plantation group that is "STUCK ON STUPID".
The Shoshone/Bannock Fort Hall reservation is immediately north of my town in Idaho. They have a big casino. Even with the casino, there are plenty of people willing to exist in squalor on the government dole. Morbid obesity is the norm. Alcohol is forbidden on the reservation, so we get lots of drunk and disorderly Native American patrons in the local bars. DUI and driving without a license, registration or insurance are also the "norm".
Amen!! The Indians have a rez on the Pacific coast of Washington calle Le Push....it COULD be beautiful...the scenery is magnificent...it's a dump.
"However,, it seems to me the quickest way to make money other than casinos is tourism, and I mean the big bucks kind. A resort capitalizing on Navajo culture would attract a lot of people who are interested, and especially Europeans. "
There seems to be a confusing logic with Native Americans. I've noticed this in Cherokee NC. "I am unique and you cannot take my heritage from me. I am Cherokee and I have culture all of my own." and then "Hey, quit staring at me".
"so we get lots of drunk and disorderly Native American patrons in the local bars. DUI and driving without a license, registration or insurance are also the "norm"."
And 300 years later, it's still the White Man's fault.
Red, can the Indian Nations establish their own Bank?
They still have quite a ways to go, but they are making some steady progress.
I've driven through Cherokee. It is quite funny to see tee-pees when they were never the abode of the Eastern tribes. I admire the Cherokee there, though, they were able to at least escape Gen. Andrew Jackson and hide out in those mountains to avoid the infamous "Trail of Tears."
Miss Marple:
Each year our church does a mission trip to the Rosebud Rez in S.D. to rehabilitate housing. I was overwhelmed at what I saw there my first time out. Indians throw away nothing. Consequently all one sees is junk--junk cars, rusted pipes, old metal, junk, junk and more junk. The landfills there are completely empty!
You'll also find a lot of drunks and white X's painted on the roads where alcoholics have died in car crashes. Also, Type II and I incidences of diabetes is staggering.
The reason for the alcohol and diabetes I was told is that until 100 years ago the Indians enjoyed a strict diet of buffalo meat and other game; their livers never knew alcohol or sugar until the white man came along. The reason for the junk is that Indians figure they will have a use for whatever is kept someday.
The Episcopal Bishop Hare Center in Mission, S.C., where we stayed was a former boarding school where Indian children were once taken from there families and beaten 'til they squealed if they uttered one word of Lakota.
A lot about what I've read in other postings about the reservation system is true with regard to the councils...but my heart still goes out for the children of the places.
Incidentally, at every Indian Pow-Wow the first people honored are veterans and it doesn't matter if you're white or red, you are honored as fellow warriors. Indians have the highest percentage of enlisted members per capita in the American armed forces since 1921--when they first became citizens of a country they once owned.
"Once proud nation is now being reduced to a welfare state..."
So true. I wonder what the Democrats plan to do whenever they finally manage to get ninety-five percent of the American people herded into their "automatic voting bloc plantation". The top five percent had better really produce or else Atlas will shrug big time. . or maybe the Dems only need a majority with a few extra for good measure on the plantation and the rest of the people coughing up ninety percent of their income for taxes. Hmm.. that's a plan. They're well on their way; own a big part of the plantation population now.
I think anyone can establish a bank, per the rules of its own state and the Fed's. If you mean and independent bank, like the Swiss or Cayman Islands, I don't think so..........
Well selling money is one of the fastest ways to generate wealth. Your Navajo nation could establish banks both on and off your lands and with a bit of fiscal discipline you should be able to in a very short time be flush with profits. It also allows you to make loans to your people to help them establish their own wealth generating properties and businesses.
If I understand correctly how many of the Casinos work, shares from the profits are distributed to the members of the tribe. (I believe I read this recently in an expose on Native American Casinos and their inner workings) The same could be done with the banks but at the same time not risk the criminal element that comes with Casinos.
Just a thought friend.
Mad Dawgg
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