The reservations were never created to help the Indians. They were created to move the Indians out of the way of the pioneers and westward expansion. Now we’re compounding that original raw deal by pretending as though treating the Indians as something other than your basic American citizen is helping them.I agree. Read the rest of it at the link.
The American Indian has a proud history and rich culture that can and should be preserved. Even in modern times they’ve a legacy of contribution to the greatness of our country, from service in the military to their help in building our great cities. But the only people the reservation system is helping are the politicians and victim pimps who are the loudest voices for perpetuating it.
We’ve turned these tribes, these proud people, into perpetual victims and that’s wrong.
Dependence upon the government doesn’t help people.
I'm sure the reservations in North Dakota and the other plains states are much more substantial than the ones we have here in California. Out here the only way you know you're on a reservation is there's a casino on it, and casinos are illegal anyplace else in California. We've made a lot of very small tribes quite rich by allowing them the gaming privilege, and they've used their wealth to promote ballot initiatives designed to increase the size and scope of their operations. Small card rooms became huge Vegas-style hotel/casino operations thanks to the ballot initiatives funded by Indian tribes.
How long are these special arrangements supposed to last? How many decades...or centuries are required to make up for past injustices?
This is why I'm very much opposed to reparations for slavery. Once you start it there will never be an ending and whatever they're given will never be enough. There will always be a push for more.
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I'm all for it, with just one "reservation" (sorry). Reservations today are the last outpost of freedom from Big Brother total control. If the reservations go, where will I buy fireworks to celebrate this great country?
There are a lot of people out there that will hate this idea. They like the idea of reparations. The Indians need to be treated just like all Americans.
In principle I agree without reservation that we should do something to clean up our mess.
but I worry about simplistic solutions that might be best (what ever that turns out to mean) for the people in Pine Ridge or St. Francis might not be very good for the people in Oklahoma.
Brad, think Bureau of Indian Affairs. Read up on their "taking care" of assets, liquid and real, or reservation Indians. Reservation politics are another concern.
On the other hand, you're dead on about the fireworks.
I think the indians themselves should decide what is best for them. We have already taken their land and their lifestyle once, let's not do it again.
I love America. The indians may or may not love America. If they love America they will want to unite with America if they don't, there is not a lot we can do about it. Big government is debilitating to my home town but we are still stuck with it. Even if we were to resign reservations big government would continue to operate to oversee whatever agreement it was resigned to. Big government is a fungus that infects everything it has touched until that government is overthrown. I am not ready to advocate the overthrow of our government. I do highly recommend throwing the political elite out of office, throwing the lifelong bureaucrats out of their positions, rescinding retirement benefits to political thieves who have stolen our constitutional freedoms and doing whatever it takes to cut out the cancer of big government.
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