Most Indian tribes sided with the British in the American Revolution.
So f*ck them
I’m close friends with someone who works with one tribe. She’s sick to death of their infighting, their paranoia, their absolute obsession with bloodlines that would make a Nazi happy. And don’t you dare say a word wrong - they have learned all the jargon of political correctness and will use it to batter you to death.
Of course, I have no interest in Indian culture myself - although another friend is always extolling its virtues. Indians bring out the pc-ness in even conservative types.
My wife is part South American Indian. You should read up on what the Spanish conquistadors did to those folks...
The land of the Cherokee did not belong to the Cherokee from the beginning of time. They took it from someone who was weaker.
American Indians include some of the most admired cultures in the world and the wilder the culture the more popular they are. Children do not play cowboys and Mayas. Children, even in Russia play Indian along the lines of Western movies or James Fenimore Cooper.
Now with casinos Whites have a new way of getting scalped (an Indian told me that one). Instead of playing victim, Indians need to look to the positive and get off the Pot, the Jack in the Black and take advantage of their heritage combined with scriptures, V8 engines, and Jim Thorpe’s ideal.
Movies like DANCES WITH WOLVES bemoan the crash of the Great Plains Indian horse culture while forgetting that horses too were brought to America by the Whites.
Indians have no one to blame for their alcoholism and drug abuse except themselves.
“Their rates of alcoholism in particular and drug and alcohol abuse in general are significantly higher than the population at large,”
That is basically true. They are under-educated and given free handouts from Big Brother so that they drink their free handouts.
“Over the last century, they have become immigrants in their own countries shuffled into reservations that amount to refugee camps and which only concentrate the problems of poverty and substance abuse.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but Indians aren’t required to live on the reservations.
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