James Watt was correct. The tribal system is the engine of indian poverty. It’s a relic of the 1800s. Reservations need to be broken up save for a SMALL area for cultural reasons. The tribe should collectively own no more than a city does inside it’s city limits.
If indians AS INDIVIDUALS owned their own houses, property, fields, and minerals,,,and could sell them to ANYONE, they would be wealthy. Their poverty is self inflicted under the guise of culture. Thats their choice to make,, but don’t come to me when culture impoverishes.
The tribal system treats individual indians as children. And the mere fact that one can run home to the res when life gets tough, acts as an anchor to indian achievement. Americans of Euro descent have nowhere to run back to where they will be given a place to live. It’s quite an incentive.
“James Watt was correct. The tribal system is the engine of indian poverty. It’s a relic of the 1800s. Reservations need to be broken up save for a SMALL area for cultural reasons. The tribe should collectively own no more than a city does inside it’s city limits.”
Agreed. The government has learned one thing. Poor, uneducated, victimmentality folks are easier to control...bribes, etc. In fact, in the 1800’s, some Indians saw it and wanted nothing more than to become a US constitutional state with rights of any other ‘Americans’.
They wanted equality. Today’s tribes don’t, they want handouts and pity.
A profound statement.
Cortez burned his ships then went on to begin the conquest of a continent. If you can't go back, you must go forward. It is the same for American negroes except that white guilt caused them to be provided with a safety net that gives them the viable alternative of failure that Americans of anglo-european and asian descent do not have.
All men are created equal. Why should not all be treated equally under the law regardless of ethnicity?