[GraceG]

The one thing the people living onthe reservation have been denied is “Basic Property Ownership Rights” Stossle covered this on one of his shows. There is a tribe in Washington State that was denied federal tribal status a long time ago and they have Flourished! Because they stuck togetehr as a people and worked their butts off. Just down the road there is a federal reservation with some of the poorest native around. If you live on a reservation you cannot legally own any land or house, so why bother improving and taking pride in it?

I think the reservations should be dissolved and the land handed back to the tribes as private property to do with whatever they please. It is downright disturbing how much control the feds have over the reservations.

[Freddd]

I thought Federal law didn’t apply to the reservations....

So, Which is it? It’s federal government’s fault or INDIAN law that keeps them from owning their own land and homes???

Ooops or were you puposefully trying to mislead?

[oldbrowser]

I think the reservations should be dissolved and the land handed back to the tribes as private property to do with whatever they please. It is downright disturbing how much control the feds have over the reservations.

They used to own the entire continent at one time and look what happened. Remeber them giving away manhattan for a handful of beads?

Many indians do not understand the concept of ownership of land. I believe the reason they are not given ownership rights is because they would lose their property.

[Sacajaweau]

We told them 200 years ago that they should adopt the same system that we have. Nope....they like their "community property thing...aka....indians only.

I have an indian friend. She doed NOT live on the reservation but she does own indians lands she inhertited from her mother.

[Boogieman]

The Indians never believed in property rights to begin with, so maybe that kind of living suits them.

[okie01]

I think the reservations should be dissolved and the land handed back to the tribes as private property to do with whatever they please. It is downright disturbing how much control the feds have over the reservations.

The reservations are demonstrations of "socialism in action": a dominating federal government coupled to a local governing apparat, the tribal government.

The one has supreme power, the other is corrupt beyond belief. The people's lives are bereft of meaning.

[Sherman Logan]

I think the reservations should be dissolved and the land handed back to the tribes as private property to do with whatever they please.

Already been done, sort of.

The Dawes Act of 1887 distributed Indian land to the individual Indians. The results were at best mixed. Many Indians sold their land to whites, resulting in a rapid decrease in the amount of Indian land. 138M acres in 1887, 48M acres in 1934.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act

[fish hawk]

To be blunt, you are wrong. Many Reservations have private owned land with in their borders. My Rez, the Yurok Reservation in N. Calif. has many many privately owned parcels with in the Reservation's boundary. When it comes to Indians and Reservations, be cautious at making flat out statements as there are always exceptions to the rule.