Also remove their tax exempt status. How do you feel about that? I think it would be a great idea.
I think that whole white guilt thing prevents a discussion of doing any of these despite the fact it should have been done a long time ago. Really now, there isn't a single native American alive who was on the trail of tears or were around when wounded knee happened. Why should we continue to sink money into making sure the descendants of the native Americans, who never had to endure their ancestors hardship, get casinos, receive food rations, get cash payments and a host of other things despite doing nothing for it. The money we sink into the Native American community is as bad if not worse than the welfare and food stamp programs in this country.. (Look up poverty on the reservations. Every societal ill the U.S. and Europe has is much worse on the reservations including chronic alcoholism and drug abuse. Dependency and abuse of government programs is a norm on the reservations.)
There is also a damn good argument against multiculturalism that can be observed in Native American communities.
Disbanding our reservation system looks like something both liberals and conservatives could agree upon. So why isn't there a discussion about this?
I think that whole white guilt thing prevents a discussion of doing any of these despite the fact it should have been done a long time ago. Really now, there isn't a single native American alive who was on the trail of tears or were around when wounded knee happened. Why should we continue to sink money into making sure the descendants of the native Americans, who never had to endure their ancestors hardship, get casinos, receive food rations, get cash payments and a host of other things despite doing nothing for it. The money we sink into the Native American community is as bad if not worse than the welfare and food stamp programs in this country.. (Look up poverty on the reservations. Every societal ill the U.S. and Europe has is much worse on the reservations including chronic alcoholism and drug abuse. Dependency and abuse of government programs is a norm on the reservations.)
There is also a damn good argument against multiculturalism that can be observed in Native American communities.
How does this relate to our Natives?A final objection (and one that has received the most attention in recent scholarly debates about multiculturalism) argues that extending protections to minority groups may come at the price of reinforcing oppression of vulnerable members of those groups—what some have called the problem of “internal minorities” or “minorities within minorities” (Green 1994, Eisenberg and Spinner-Halev 2005). Multicultural theorists have focused on inequalities between groups in arguing for special protections for minority groups, but group-based protections can exacerbate inequalities within minority groups. This is because some ways of protecting minority groups from oppression by the majority may make it more likely that more powerful members of those groups are able to undermine the basic liberties and opportunities of vulnerable members. Vulnerable subgroups within minority groups include religious dissenters, sexual minorities, women, and children. A group's leaders may exaggerate the degree of consensus and solidarity within their group to present a united front to the wider society and strengthen their case for accommodation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … 02778.htmlOne in three Native American women will be raped at some point in their lives, a rate that is more than double that for non-Indian women, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
The report, "Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA," noted a variety of reasons that rape is so prevalent on reservations, according to its authors.
In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Oliphant v. the Suquamish Indian Tribe that tribal governments have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. When a crime is committed, tribal police and their non-Indian counterparts must hash out whether the suspect is Indian or not.
Tribal governments lack the funds and staffing to patrol their lands, the report said. At the million-acre Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which straddles North and South Dakota, seven police officers are on duty. In Alaska, where state and native police patrol a vast landscape, officers took four hours to reach the village of Nunam Iqua, during which time a barricaded suspect raped a 13-year-old girl in front of her siblings.
Disbanding our reservation system looks like something both liberals and conservatives could agree upon. So why isn't there a discussion about this?
