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In reply to the discussion: U.S. must heal native peoples' wounds, return lands: U.N. [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)Having dipped a toe in that line of work, it is infuriating to see how uninformed people are about Indian affairs, including some of the Members of Congress who directly deal with tribes, and our last President.
The problem is this simple: we treated with Indian tribes just as we did with foreign nations, and with the same legal permanence; then we broke every damned one of those treaties and fleeced the tribes for everything they had.
From the U.N. point of view, treaty-breaking is about the worst thing one nation can do; that biased result is a foregone conclusion, because the United States is guilty as hell. Putting an actual Native American on the case gives the U.N. a lifetime's head start beyond the simple treaty violation problem, and I for one am thankful for that.