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Its a bad deal all over the place and the residents there are the only ones who can change things. If they want to change things, I'll be glad to help.

Google “Pine Ridge Homicides” and you’ll get lots of interesting reading. Left to themselves they will eventually self destruct, but the feds billion $ rat hole prolongs the agony.
It’s long past time to end the reservation system and sovereignty and have these folks join the rest of society. No more “nation” inside a nation. One law for one people.

One law for one people is a damn good goal

Wow; talk about going off the reservation...

White boy growing up on a Rez. That sounds like a hoot of fûck’n fun.

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‘Wind River’ is an excellent movie.




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I’ve always said that was the biggest mistake the govt made was putting them on reservations, should have integrated them into society and let them deal with it like the rest of our ancestors.

All it did was make them dependent on the government.

Yeah, it was Pine Ridge. The "town" in Nebraska, six inches from the SD border, is "White Clay." Last time I was there, White Clay was comprised of two liquor stores across the road from one another.

Rez system wasn’t the devil detail, money is. On top of the land give them tools, livestock/seed, base equipment to get started should have happened. Instead of money they should have been given help drilling wells, water management assets, hands on help and fair schooling , tho most has been.
If they knew how to deal with the harshness of the land, they would have done a pretty fair job of keeping themselves alive with the basics.
Money involved the whites who figured out real fast how to skim, some Indians figured that out just as quick. Most however as a “kept” society degenerated no differently than those in Chicago, Philly, and many other areas.
Look at the mass gatherings of “homeless” people now flowering up, they are the new Rez/hood dwellers and are fast becoming every bit as degenerated and a financial burden. Not much different than the hippie communes that sprung up in the 60’s, except the government didn’t start handing the communes money back then and those hippies soon realized they had to get real, get moving, or perish. Reality works every time it’s tried.
Something has to give, working people giving money is not the answer.

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White Clay is now a dry town. Means the natives just have drive/whatever to get the next town south. Haven't heard much about things since then. Probably didn't slow them down much.

My mom was half injun making me a 1/4 injun but not enough to brown lol. So growing up on the Rez and white was not fun.. But after a few yrs I was accepted as part of the crew… what’s funny about the Rez especially warm springs they are all about their sovereign nation chit until they have a water issue then all of the sudden they want to be part of the state and it’s now a state problem..

The Rez is a socialist utopia, nothing but rainbows and peace.

I have met and know many Native Americans that have left the reservations here in my part of Montana and have become responsible citizens.
The ones who have the will to get away from reservations and stay away are good people and seem to blend in with the rest of us.
Of course, all of the reservations I am familiar with are schit-holes that are like all of the ones described in this discussion!
I think our govt. made them that way and now don't give a [bleep]!

Now that is what I call "expedient."

L.W.

Holee sheit.

One of our forum members who has a business as a PH in South Africa, framed in windows and doors for the Africans living in their "roundels" (no corners because they harbor evil spirits don't you know). He went back to the states after hunting season and the residents had ripped all the wood off the windows, frames, doors, etc for firewood...even though they have an entire bush full of mopane and other woods to burn. IT appears, the wood in the house was closer and less chopping required.....

The white parts of the Flathead reservation are nice. The tribal parts, not so much. The reservation was opened to white settlement in 1908 and ever since the CSKT has tried to claw it back. And because Indians are "reliable" Dem votes, they have allies in the system that will do anything to keep Indians loyal Democrats. But Indians aren't particularly loyal to anyone or anything but perhaps their clans. A shame, really. There's no reason a white place and an Indian place right next to each other can't be equally prosperous and safe.

In the 1960s through 1980s I was salmon fishing from indian reservations.

My brother made the observation that they seemed to have trouble with things with wheels.

They were good at horses.

Gotta do something with them.


Same deal with ghettos.

Hey we are cuzzins to or is it uncle?