Wouldn't they rather watch TV and let machines do all of the tedious labor? What about Internet connection and healthcare? What about democracy?
2007-12-31 05:32:26 · 15 answers · asked by Bobby S 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
We like to earn what we get. Have you seen the pictures of what america looks like? Obese. Seriously, you say let all the machines do the work, I say get off your fat ***, put the donuts down and walk around.
Don't you realize that YOUR government is an adaptation of the Iroquois Great Law? Everything you stand for, Mr. America is an adaptation, nee, a KNOCKOFF of the First Nations people, you wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.
I don't want to be an american citizen, I don't want to be a canadian citizen, I am Haudenosaunee, I was that before borders put that in, We are a sovereign nation, if we weren't sovereign, and if you didn't recognize that we weren't then we couldn't have treaties now could we? You can't make a treaty with your own citizen, a treaty is made by one nation to another nation.
Come out of the redneck woods that your from and learn something.
2007-12-31 05:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by your_gurl_leah 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Um... for starters, they *are* American citizens...
And maybe culture is important to people, even if most of America has no clue what a real culture is and are clueless to why it might matter to a person. Where your people are is where your culture is...so perhaps it's not always an easy choice...family and culture and all that matters, or leave that all behind for empty society and money so you get to, uh, watch tv?
But that's just my guess, I can't speak for them.
Also however...like anywhere else, while there is a lot of poverty some families do manage to do a bit better for themselves than others. One couple I've talked to on a forum for the past four years, and consider them friends, do live within their people's reservation and culture...but clearly they have internet, as well as a tv... They aren't rich and make do with what they can, but they work hard to try to provide a better life for their kids and raise them knowing their background.
2007-12-31 08:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Indigo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
American Indians are US citizens, and although many may not realize it, were the 'citizens' of the land long long before white man ever arrived and took what was not his to take.
It is the non-Native American people who are the 'Johnny-come-lately' in North America, therefore by rights the original People (American Indians - all the many tribes and nations thereof) should always have been considered citizens.
As to democracy: the Constitution was based on the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee people. So you need to take a reality check on that too, friend - read your American History books.
And as to 'watching TV and letting machines do all of the tedious labour' - that, friend, seems to be the lifestyle of choice of most of America - indeed it's a worldwide phenomenon of our times! As most people in this world don't live on reservations, this lifestyle can hardly be attributed to or considered exclusive to American Indians!
Few people today need to hunt for their food, skinning and brain-tanning the hide of the animal for clothes, using the sinews for thread etc, wasting nothing whatsoever of the animal. Look back at your history books again and see how European man treated (and treats) the natural resources of the land.
2007-12-31 07:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by Grandmother 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We ARE American citizens and have been since before this was called America. And we have tv and we have machines to do our tedious labor. The only machines we don't have are automated arrow makers and flint chippers to make our arrow heads....Yes we have the internet.
We just got healthcare last week, so that's pretty new to us. Before now we just drank whiskey to cure our ills.
Democracy is something we have had longer than any other culture alive today...even longer than the Europeans.
Yes, we vote. We drive cars. We live in actual houses; not teepees. We wear regulars clothes; not just buckskins and braids. We speak English and I'm proud to say I speak it better than our idiot president.
We go to college and I have a degree in education.
Not all Native Americans live on reservations. For most of my life I've lived off the reservation all over the country and overseas. I speak a little German, Portugese, Italian, Turkish and my own language, Arapaho.
2007-12-31 06:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by ndn_ronhoward 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do the research, they are citizens....but choose to live on their land.
2007-12-31 06:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by deb 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what are native americans if they're not legal citizens? shall we start deporting them somewhere too?
I think you need to take a couple of history classes AND some cultural classes too. then we can talk.
fyi: native americans are the true american citizens....
2007-12-31 05:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by ´¯0())))»·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's a different attitude than what you experience. It's a way of life that meshes more closely with the human soul than rushing around buying buying and buying. What is that good for?
What has machines done for you besides make most of you fatter, caused minds to be slower and less accurate, and for all practicality- the way most people live life outside of a reservation causes the need for extensive healthcare!
As far as democracy is, did you know that much of the United States government is patterned on the culmination of this land's tribal systems? Even the main highways are new built on ancient- the eons aged paths of ancetors who founded the best survivable routes for the changing climates.
2007-12-31 05:57:26 · answer #7 · answered by Xanadu 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They already are American citizens despite still be considered seperate nations.
Besides, what is the advantage to being a non-White American minority??????
2007-12-31 05:45:02 · answer #8 · answered by BionicNahlege 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you were born in a US state or Terratory you are automaticly a US Citizen
2007-12-31 05:44:54 · answer #9 · answered by Michael S 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 gave United States citizenship to Native Americans, in part because of an interest by many to see them merged with the American mainstream, and also because of the service of many Native American veterans in World War I.
Please remember how the US Government screwed the Native Americans over and over again. If they want to live someplace away from that, I can't blame them.
2007-12-31 05:38:51 · answer #10 · answered by 8-) Nurf Herder 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋