Do you think it's about time Native American's stop getting money from the Government/us?

Question

It's been SEVERAL years and we're still paying them for the land. How much money do they need? they get discounts on everything. I'm not racist so please don't missunderstand me it's just I think maybe it's time to call it Even.

All they do with it is get drunk it's true coming from a small town of them. They Beg at your car's for MONEY! If you don't give it to them they spit on your car!

I'm not trying to stir up trouble I just once lived by a reservation...there not so humble people.
I really just wanted opinion's on this matter.

I'm not trying to stir up trouble I just once lived by a reservation...there not all so humble people and you'd see this if you lived by one. They are like homeless people in a since they get drunk and you'l find them in alleys wasted peeing by the dumpsters and then tell you they don't have any money and yet have fortunes out on the rez. I do agree that not all of them are like this and the one's that arn't are very nice.
I really just wanted opinion's on this matter.

Answer 1

Oh my god!!! Clearly most of the people who have answered your question have no idea what they are talking about, I am sure that not one of them live anywhere near, or have been anywhere near a reservation. Yes these payments should be stopped, there is no longer any reason for them. The only purpose they serve is to keep these people dependent on someone else, as long as they get free money, there is no reason to work. First, to everyone who answered, I'd like to say yes someone else conquered this land, this is something that has been going on since the dawn of man, do you see other countries giving land back? at all? throughout any time in history? Second I'd like to point out that anyone who thinks that the native americans were all meek and peaceful and innocent didn't learn a damn thing in history class. They too were murderous and savage, many tribes slaughtered innocent white women and children who had done nothing wrong. Lets not forget also, that as soon as the natives got a hold of the white mans weapons they managed to wipe out many species of animals by over hunting them. The buffalo was not the only animal on the land you know.
Ohiogurl I have to ask what are real word jobs? as far as companies that don't hire natives? ********, I live near a reservation and many of the natives work, companies are afraid not to hire them for fear of being sued for dicrimination, even if they were not suitible for the job. And how exactly did you come up with the idea that people should give them money because their family doesn't want them to work in society? I'm sorry but that should not be an option if you don't want to work, you shouldn't expect a handout, that's your problem not mine. Also I don't know what cartoons you've been watching but there are not only many poor natives, there are also many wealthy natives just like every other race across the country.
Lotus Pheonix you are not much brighter, I don't know where you get the idea that anyone here had anything to do with the injustices of long ago, but my ancestors are not the same person that I am, I own no one anything. But I guess from reading your other posts I can tell what kind of a person you are and your "blame whitey" statement speaks loads about your intelligence.
The only person who has answered this question so far with any brains is Xenypoo who apparently is the only person who understands the importance of self sufficency. I have watched everyone on this site complain about those on welfare and what a horrible waste of money it is, come on people this is welfare, the only difference is that they get a hell of a lot more and they can apply and get welfare on top of the checks they already recieve. None of the natives who are recieving this money suffered anything that happend so long ago, therefore they do not deserve anything for someone elses suffering. furthermore there are almost no full blooded natives left, they are all half native american or a fourth or an eighth, so by that aspect you are actually giving a bunch of half white, black or other race free money.

Victor ious- Look how pathetic you are, defending your right to a hand out. So your logic is that because your great-great grandmother suffered spousal abuse (oh my god just like so many women across the country today!) then you deserve free money even though you were not alive at this time?

Answer 2

Oh, right, and just break another treaty! Show them Indians the leaders of this country will always renig on their promises, treaties, contracts, agreements.

NO! Many treaties were broken that the leaders of the USA had agreed upon with the Native Americans. This is one they better not change. This was Native American land and the Native Americans were treated very cruelly and unjustly. They did not have to be pushed off their lands, they did not have to be forced into the Colonial lifestyles, they should never have been forced to totally stop speaking their language, their children should never have been forced to go to schools away from their families to be taught only the 'white' mans ways. The USA and the BIA will and should always strive to keep these agreements for the future of the Native Americans and their culture. After all, 'they' WERE here first.

Anyone who doesn't understand needs to get educated on the history or get the He!! out of the USA.

By the way this has nothing to do with immigration. What is your intention? To stir up old issues, to try to divide and conquer, to try to harm the Native Americans, as if they are living the high-life or getting rich off that money? You need to go to another category, this is not the correct one. Better yet, go to another country.

Edit: CC, that last comment was totally uncalled for. You should WISH you had the guts of the Native American to withstand what they have gone through. Some are alcoholics, so are a lot of 'white' people and people of all other races. There are idiots in all races, too. Guess what category YOU fit into? "All" Native Americans aren't alcoholics. Many, many of them go on to get higher educations, open businesses and are very successful. There are colleges for Native Americans. Some of those kids get education partially funded from those 'Casinos', which they had the intelligence to run and succeed at, bringing in much needed revenue to their reservations. Why people criticize them for opening casinos then bytch about them being poor or getting government allotments. What do you want, you can't have it both ways. If they can make money off casinos, what's it to you? Get off the Native Americans back, they don't deserve your sharp, forked tongue nor your ignorant comments.

Victor ious (below) said it all!! I agree with him/her 100%!!

Answer 3

I have never heard of the name Cree, but I have known several Dakota's and both boys and girls. And none have Native American, that I know of. But, you cannot always tell by their appearance.

Answer 4

The fact is that we can not pay to right every wrong of the past. We are still paying for the rebuilding of Japan, still paying the natives here, still giving tax dollars in support of different African American funds all due to past wrongs. At some point everyone has been treated wrong but generations down the road are not to blame nor should they be held responsible. I am of Irish decent and my people have also been slaves but it doesn't make me entitled to special treatment.
You mention the problem with drinking and I know that they are more susceptible to have alcoholism due to chemical differences but they are not the only drunks out there. The drink issue has little to do with whether or not they should get funding for past wrongs.

Answer 5

I am half Scotsman and Native American Cherokee. I tell you what - you get the government to give back the land they stole and restore the Native American's pride as a peoples, and I will talk to the tribes into not taking government monies and instead, charge every white-eye rent for use of the Native American's lands.

Lady, you are a racist. You just made every single Native American into a drunk, typecasting all Native Americans as drunks - and that is far far far and away from the truth. Whites, Blacks, Indians, Mexicans and other nationalities have their share of drunks and street panhandlers and rude people. Get off your superior than thou attitude.

When you take away the Native American's land, and you restrict then to tiny stretches of land and hand them money with no jobs, no proper education system - then you will have problems, problems created by the United States Government.

Its a triple slap in the face when you pander to the black race about the slavery days and do all you can to make up for the wrongs done to them.. but what about the mass slaughter done by whites to the Indian peoples.., massacres committed by the U.S. government with the white people's blessings. Hell yeah the Indians fought back when the white man broke their own contracts with them. Yeah they fought back when their people were being absorbed into the white communities, having their heritage ripped away...,

and no wonder there is a resentment of the White man's God when they took the Indian children and forced them into Catholic and Protestant religions.., to act as the white man.., and even then these children were mistreated when they did all that was asked of them.

My great great grandmother (a full blood Cherokee) was sorely mistreated by her Scottish husband's family as a dog. Something she did not deserve. She dressed like the white man demanded, she spoke the white man's tongue perfectly and still she was regarded as subhuman.

This treatment is ongoing. Canadians and Americans are caught on video consistently harassing Native American Indians, calling my people, SAND N*GGERS! and WORSE! But you do not see the ACLU or anybody else launching out to stop this maltreatment - but you always defend the black people from being called the N-word..., yet give your blessings when Native Americans are treated as such.

It is NO WONDER that A.I.M. has young men filled with violent hate... its people like YOU who enrage them, insult them, emasculate them as if the Native Americans are trash.

The people of America are after Israel to give land back to the Palestinians that was never the Palestinians in the first place - But the white people and black people of American will not in a million years consider giving land back to the Native Americans who's land it was in the first place.

Lady - you and those like you are ignorant of the facts or just don't care. If the white man owes the black man, then the white man owes the Red-Man more!

To me you sound like them folks who want any other race than white extinct. But I fear I must applogize to you. You see, I called you a Lady - and trust me - you are NO lady.

Answer 6

If anyone group of people deserve anything I believe it is them. I too have been on a reservation and some do drink too much fire water. Anyway, they deserve more, maybe not money but something else.

Answer 7

Um ... we stole their land and forced them into Indian reserves out in the middle of no where, like in the middle of the desert or in some forest in NY state. Most of the Native Americans (not all but many) almost poor, and can't afford much. They can't really get any "real word" jobs, because the companies won't hire them, or their family doesn't want them to work in this society.

Your sitting in your house on land that some Native Americans may have once called home!

Answer 8

I think the U.S. government should honor all of the treaties it signed with Native American Tribes. I want my government to be as good as it's word. If a tribe is open to a renegotiation of a treaty than fine. If you are unhappy with the arrangement between the U.S. government and Native American nations you should seek to change the U.S. constitution.

Answer 9

The Native American Indians deserve every penny they receive and are under payed IMO. The money they receive is just a drop in the bucket for what they lost and the majority live in major poverty or hovering right near it.

Answer 10

Do you really think we could ever pay back what we owe them for the WHOLE of America? We gave them the worst land we could find, and reduced their nomadic lifestyle to a point where they had to live in one location. When we discovered oil, coal, or other minerals on the reservations, we moved them on again.

We introduced diseases (sometime deliberately) and we introduced them to alcohol, which they are less able to process because of differences in their genetic makeup.

Now that Native Americans are realizing the potential of their reservation land for gambling, golf, and resort hotels, we once again want to punish them.

They deserve the benefits laid down by law.