Senate Committee Apologizes to All Native Americans for Violence and Maltreatment by U.S. Citizens

CNSNEWS ^ | August 10, 2009 | Penny Starr

[the invisib1e hand]

my gawd I love that graphic: it faces the awful issue sqarely and puts the blame where it belongs: not on white males, but on government -- abuse of power, which is colorblind.

[the invisib1e hand]

can i buy a “u”?

[sunny48]

<“With this resolution we have the potential to start a new era of positive relations between tribal governments and the federal government,” >

Awww hec, they just want to tax them.

[fish hawk]

Your logic stinks. Since when does a country that was invaded and taken over, who fought back by killing some of the invaders, have to apologize to them?? With your logic Pearl Harbor owes the Japanese an appology.

[a fool in paradise]

Note that this is the same government that is telling Americans “trust us” when it comes to taking over health care.

[fish hawk]

Would you please give me info on where you get your information. My whole family is Indian and we could really use that $3800 a month. I'm betting you can't prove it. If you could, I would be getting the money.

[9YearLurker]

So does that mean every Democrat in Congress is apologizing to Todd Palin for how their party and their friends in the press have treated him and his family since last summer?

[Lurking in Kansas]

Meanwhile, back in Michigan...

The Custer family is still waiting for an apology.

[RC2]

Are you 25% Indian? Are you from an approved tribe? If so, you should apply. I have Sioux in my background but not enough to qualify. How much do you believe Indians on the reservations get from the government. Google it and see what you come up with.

[Niuhuru]

Of course not. Then of course there are the settlers they attacked and scalped.

[fish hawk]

So what does that have to do with what your white ancestors did??? Nothing that I can see. Stating a bad does not make a good.

[fish hawk]

The Casino is not near enough. You go on down there now and chip in. By the way, if you want to see what government run health care is going to do for you, go visit a reservation.

[Eleutheria5]

Wow. A new era. Just like that. I wonder if a intertribal council will now issue an apology to the citizens of the United States for occasionally, you know, committing murder and mayhem every now and then. Will that start a new era, too?

How about we let them keep enough sovereignty to do their gambling casinos and tax free cigarettes, and they carry on as best they can, and everyone stop all this touchy feely nonsense. New era. I can’t believe he actually said that.

[Michael.SF.]

[fish hawk]

The Indians wont apologize to the Custer family because he committed suicide by stupidity.

[Youaskedforit]

And in a similar vain, the Roman municipal Government apologized to the Sabines and the Etruscans (and the Greeks, Gauls, Romanians, Austrians)...

Scusa! Pardonnez mois! Entschuldigen Sie mir bitte!

And may I also take this opportunity to apologize for the sins of my great great great grandfather against the any of the here present freeper people’s ancestors.

Desculpame Mucho! I didn’t mean for him to do it - honest!

Urbi et Orbi I apologize and as I flagellate myself crawling on hands and knees to Santiago de Campostela, I will pray for the sins of my long dead forebears against the long dead forebears of others (so that I may conveniently distract myself against the real sins of today, being committed by the living against the living, including the unborn).

I’m sorry!

[pillut48]

I don’t know much about Indian owned casinos, are they tax-free? If so, and the feds are trying to make nice nice just to get taxes applied to them, SHAME on Brownback and his friends for doing this!

[Eleutheria5]

I want an apology from the local parishes of Slonim, Myzrycz and Vilna for the many pogroms that occurred during the middle ages. I’ll apologize for my great great grandpa for selling a pillow case to a local peasant that had a hole in one corner. I apologize to any old man that I might have accidentally jostled on the subways when I lived in NYC. Any old women, too. As for you young-uns, shift for yourselves.

[fish hawk]

I will look into it but I'm willing to bet that IF that did happen it was a special case with a particular tribe for a particular reason. My tribe works closely with the Government and believe me if this was open to all Indians my tribe would be right up front in line. We have no Casino and are pretty pour compared to the Casino tribes.