Posted on 12/28/2016 10:17:04 PM PST by grundle
Considering the mess on and around most Indian reservations, I’m happy these lands were set aside. Not much going at these desolate locations anyway. Plus, tribal leaders and state Republicans approved creation of the monuments.
In one fell swoop of utter stupidity, Obama has now turned the majority of the Navajo Nation GOPers! ;^)
It’s refreshing to see a writer use the term ‘American Indian’ as opposed to the incorrect term ‘Native American’.
Piss off the -
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WW2 Veterans (check)......
Yes, it certainly is! :-)
The term “Indian” is actually a mistaken identity, since Columbus thought that he had landed in India, not a completely new continent.
Trump could fix the Indian problem. Deed all tribal land and reservations back to the Indians who live there. Do it in the form of a co-op. Equal shares to all. Disolve the BIA. Cut all wealfare and pay them a fee for public roads and Interstates running through. Let the Indians work out their issues from there.
‘Betty Jones’??? What is next, Donna Reed?
Bookmark.
HAHAHAHAH serves the natives right. They thought Obama was going to care about them so they supported Obama. HAHAHAHA. WRONG. Obama cares about Obama. But not to worry. The natives will have Heap Big Wampum Cheeckbone to vote for to rip them off even further.
use the system that they have in Alaska. they don’t have reservation instead they have corporations with tribe members holding stock in the corporation and the corporation owns the land. it works a lot better then the reservation system in the lower 48
If only Trump had the time, the info and advice to make it happen, the best hospitals are the Native Hospitals in Alaska, i had the misfortune to be stuck in what was supposed to be the best in Anchorage two years ago for six days, terrible condition, nasty nurses, dirty room. Providence, the place where “over my dead body” won’t work.
Alaska tribes for the most part are pretty well off in Alaska.
Your plan sounds much like the plan Nixon used to create tribal corporations in Alaska - it has not worked any better than the mainland reservation system.
When Nixon took the theoretical aboriginal law which prevailed in AK and turned it into a corporation system he created a monster - ramifications of which created the Special Master class in some mainland treaty tribes as well as granting them Special Rights that no other American enjoys (and in fact withdrew Rights ordinary citizen had enjoyed) - beyond reservation Federal Income Tax exemption and firework and tobacco stands.
You do not want to mess with Treaty Tribal law as it now stands because tribal rights, unlike every one else’s, is enshrined in the US Constitution - in other words their ‘rights’ supersede every one else’s. SCOTUS has ruled three times that: Tribal treaty rights are guaranteed in the US Constitution, all others have mere privileges which can be revoked at any given time. (The tribes are specifically mentioned - while every one else is refereed to generically as ‘people’ or citizens’.)
Whatever you try to do for the tribes with the best of intensions, like Nixon, that will result in granting the tribes a Right/benefit - the creation of which revokes/minimizes the Right/benefit of others.
All of this is why the majority of American Indians do not live on reservations and regard reservation Indians as scum, criminals, druggers and drunks, and practitioners of black magic who scam the ignorant general public (much like muslims use taqyyia) for money to keep the ruling tribal families in power and wealth while pointing to the deliberately impoverished other tribal members as the reason for more money or some special consideration.
Like the woman who gathers stuff in the post - you are supposed to feel sorry for her and petition for her gathering to continue. We do not know who she is in the tribe; we do not know what she actually does with the stuff she gathers; we do not know if the stuff she gathers can be legally gathered by non-Indians; we do not know if non-Indians can use/dispose of the stuff legally; and so on.
No one can ‘fix’ the Indian problem - it is a matter of Constitutional and Treaty law. As set up present day tribal Indians use the ‘We were Created here’ BS to justify their system and as long as the general public remains ignorant of the actualities of reservation life, they will always side with the tribes.
Exhausted Canines with tongues extended,,
ARGHHH ,
I read the entire post,
and this is what I take away.
“Trump could fix the Indian problem. Deed all tribal land and reservations back to the Indians who live there. Do it in the form of a co-op. Equal shares to all. Disolve the BIA. Cut all wealfare and pay them a fee for public roads and Interstates running through. Let the Indians work out their issues from there.”
Excellent idea. Send it to the Trump people.
“Indians” are those people that answer the phone when you call for customer service, and are racially and culturally different than Native Americans.
I don’t care about political correctness, I just want to use a more accurate term.
You present some interesting info but I just dont buy your nothing can be done resignation.
Yes, refreshing indeed!
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