I am not asking this to be a smart a**. I just am curious b/c we don't make them stay on the reservations anymore. Any thoughts?
2006-11-13 06:37:33 · 11 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
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where i grew up was 5 miles from the res. I worked at the Casino, and at the Reservations P.D. as a dispatcher. The kids would turn 18 and get around 20,000 dollars. they were five miles from public schools, and had every right to a public education as i did. most of them that I knew bought new cars and blew their "indian money"
Most of them did not even work in their own casino, and more than once as a dispatcher they would call and try to get info from me about a case and when I wouldn't give it, they'd call me a white b**** and a waste of the tribes money.
2006-11-13 06:48:50 · update #1
Who is paying reparations to Native People? The only money going to the reservations that I know of is partial payments of funds that were agreed to by treaty when the Indians withdrew from their lands to the reservations. BTW, the US has not honored and fulfilled any treaty it has ever made with the Native Peoples of this country.
The idea that every Native American gets a free college education and a sustainable living for the course of their lives is utter malarkey, just lies fed to us by campaigning politicians and right wing pundits in order to get people worked up. Most reservations are very poor and some are so bad they look like third world countries.
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PS:
In response to the information you added, it sounds like the casino is doing fairly well and offering a one-time payout to the tribe members. I'll bet the elders on the tribal council would like to see that money spent differently, but Indian governments are just as corrupt as yonega / wasichu governments, ennit? Until we can fix the problems in Washington we have no right to be derisive of the Rez council and their problems.
2006-11-13 06:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Celtic Rebel 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What reparations are you referring to?
American Indians receive some of the same type of government support and benefits other poor Americans do, and I suppose a few tribes get payments due to them by treaty, and other tribes get things like royalties on oil and gas extracted from their land, but I don't know of any continuing reparations. On occasion, the US is ordered to pay a tribe damages for having breached a treaty, but this is much like any breach of contract and not "reparations" in the usual political sense. Also, the Dept. of the Interior controls a great deal of funds in trust for various tribes (and has mismanaged the trust fund egregiously). This trust fund is the subject of long-standing litigation, and perhaps you've read about that, but again, it isn't on-going reparations.
ADDED: I can't tell from what you've said, but the money you've described sounds like a distribution of casino money from the tribe to its members when they become adult, and not reparations, or, indeed, anything to do with "us" paying "them."
2006-11-13 06:44:54 · answer #2 · answered by C_Bar 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Each Native American Tribe was recognized as a separate Nation (i.e. country). America entered into a treaty agreement with many of the Nations and then rescinded on it. They were forcibly removed from their lands and transferred to places where they could not hunt, etc for survival. They were also promised a certain amount of money (specified in the treaties) for some of the land (not the same land that was stolen) they gave up; which was never given to them.
Take a history lesson....all will be revealed.
2006-11-13 06:49:26 · answer #3 · answered by limendoz 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
In what way do we not make them stay on reservations? The education and economy are so bad on the reservations--even with the SMALL amount of reparations they receive--that they cannot escape the reservations, even if they wanted to. It is virtually the same as a law that detains them there--it has the same effect.
2006-11-13 06:40:43 · answer #4 · answered by retorik75 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because nothing we could ever do would make up for the fact that we committed genocide on their people. We stole their land, broke endless treaties... Many Native Americans still live on reservations and they live in poverty.
We don't really pay reparations to them anymore. We allow them to live in impoverished conditions and to struggle with alcoholism. A lot more needs to be done.
2006-11-13 06:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by Abby 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because it says so in the few treaties that were signed that the US still honours.
2006-11-13 06:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by Barabas 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because they were the REAL Americans
They were the original inhabitants of America.
2006-11-13 06:43:45 · answer #7 · answered by Mary C 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
we pay taxes on our land, so why not pay the indians, 4 using their land .. fair is fair in my indian eyes : )
2006-11-13 06:47:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the only idea which I personally would support is the symbolic recognition that our wealth comes from the use of land we should have purchased maybe rented from the original inhabitants
2006-11-13 06:41:51 · answer #9 · answered by aubry 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Cause they got there land taken, and got raped and murdered
2006-11-13 06:40:28 · answer #10 · answered by a36dbabydoll 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋