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My ancestors did do it for US, they did it to preserve their race, their future generations. It isn't romaticized connotations either, its what happened, they signed treaties to end armed conflict, and the US has down a horrible job keeping up their end of the bargain(how is that romanticized?). Its like a father taking out life insurance for his kids in the event of his death(for say 500,000), to make sure his wife/children have $ to take care of things...he paid the insurance to insure that his loved ones are taken care of. But in the case of the indians, that contract, that insurance, the TREATIES have been ignored/under funded greatly. Its like that same insurance company paying out 40,000 on that half a million life insurance policy, and by your standard, his family should be happy about what they got (handouts supposedly) and move on?
Yes, we all have ancestors that paid the ultimate sacrifice in blood, but the native americans have DOCUMENTS called Treaties, that are suppose to be held up by the Federal Government, there is a difference there, there is a signed document, TREATIES. And by your comments of treaties broken-shit happens, thank you so much for saying that totally ignorant remark, thank you...:) By the way, do you work in insurance?...:)
The Federal Govenment may, or may not fully hold up its end of the bargain, but we have such little voice in washington, the only senators that i have seen take a stand have been Daschle, McCain, and Mrs. Casselbaum (of kansas). I admit that what the orignal poster said is impossible.
As for moving on, as the vanquished to move on we are doing a fantastic job of doing that now. We got indians who wear OU Sooner hats, we got Indians who wear and support the Dallas Cowboys, who wear their clothes like little gangsters, we got Indians who stab one another in the back to get personal gain, we got Tribal Councils who steal funds, etc etc...I say, we have done a pretty good job of taking on the Victors Theology. :) But we cannot forget the past, we cannot forget where we came from, it will always be with us, I agree its bad to sit and point fingers, but we cannot forget what the US government has done, and continues to do, if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
Hoping for handouts? What do you mean by this? I'm not sittign around looking for handouts, and neither are my wifes side, nor my side of the family ( I married into the Keetowah Band of Cherokee). So, what do you mean by handouts?
Also, you make it sound like these actions, that the US Govt did were ancient history. My grandmother, who is 80, went to Sheldon Jackson Boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, where she was forced, beaten to forget her haida culture...this isn't something that happend eons ago, it happened damn, in my grandmothers life time.
But again, you are entitled to your own opinion, and i doubt i changed one bit of it, but nice talking to you.
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