First, to ward off the inevitable hostile replies, let me state that I grew up in Nevada within walking distance of a reservation (Shoshone Tribe) and had several native friends growing up.
Now, on to my point. Throughout human history, peoples have fought and conqoured one another. Those societies never set up reservations for the displaced people. They were simply forced to come into the new society, or die. And natives fought with each other as well, and don't think for a minute one tribe would set up a reservation for a rival tribe it had defeated.
So why do we have reservations? Especially today, at least a hundred years after the fighting has stopped. Even if you believe they were necessary at first, hasn't enough time elapsed that natives should be expected to be part of the general population by now? I think it is unfair to single out native americans for special treatment when all of human history suggests they shouldn't receive it.
2006-12-07
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