The Associated Press used the word ‘Indian’?
I thought that if you say that you get arrested or something.
I only have one question — will my family be forcibly re-located back to Europe?
I wonder if this is going to push recognition of the Lumbee tribe. The Lumbee do not want special recognition, I suspect because they do not want to go on to a FedGov mandated reservation. In this case I refer to reservation as having to accept conditions for taking government money. The Lumbee are doing quite well without government help.
The whole Indian reservation thing is just stupid. They have no claim to any US soil, they lost. Get over it.
***bolstering its claims to surrounding land and opening the door to a tribal-owned casino***
WE HAVE A WINNAH! There are several so-called Cherokee offshoots desiring tribal recognition so they can get their land classified as a “reservation” just so they can build a casino!
One “tribe” offshoot wants to build a casino on land that their tribe never occupied, near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Hot Springs used to have all sorts of illegal gambling back in the early 1960s.
Forget about Indian lands with one tribe seeking recognition by the Federal government. The inevitable next step here will be competing claims for the same land by multiple “tribes.”
Pass the popcorn....this one is going to be nasty....and I mean intra-tribal nasty. The fighting that already takes place because of casino land and money is bad enough. This will only make it worse. Moreover, the local communities will not be happy at losing land that they have controlled for hundreds of years. This will not end well. It will make a bunch of lawyers happy and rich
An Indian casino? What a novel idea! [/s]
Seriously, does anyone still go to those?
If you want to read a fascinating book on Indian tribe's scams, I highly recommend Without Reservation: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World's Largest Casino which tells the story of the "rebirth" of the NE Pequots and how it led to the establishing of the highly successful and lucrative Foxwoods casino.
Most indian tribes (with a few notable exceptions) sided with the British in the American Revolution.
They are luckily we still allowed to live in America once the war was over - let alone get ANYTHING from this government.
When will the poor taxpaying working stiff be recognized?
Good, I could never get the hang of recognizing which ones were Sioux or Apache or Cherokee.