Thursday, March 4, 2010

I am Indian Where is my money?

Why do we still have Indian reservation camps? Technically we didn't really steal land from the Indians since they were the first in America either. There are theories out there that claim the first people were from Siberia or Aztecs from South America. When the government first put Indians in reservation camps it was suppose to be temporary until they could sustain themselves. it was only suppose to last 25 years. Now we still have reservation camps, they have their own policing force, schools, businesses and laws. We pay for their healthcare and welfare system. They have casinos on their land that is not taxed, they reap in all the benefits. They do not pay for property taxes, state or federal taxes. Where is the justice in this? I recently read in the news that oil was struck on indian land so the tribe that owns the land reaps all the profit. My sister in-law's father works in a casino on a reservation. He tells me that  the casino pays each individual indian $40,000 a year just for being parf of the tribe in the reservation, In reality they are being paid 80,000 because they are not taxed on it, they don't pay any other taxes. I am part Choctaw and Navajo, mu great grandmother was a full blooded indian. Unfortunately the courthouse that had her birth certificate burned down so there is no record of it. I would have liked  my piece of the pie! I would go live on a reservation camp but I would not want to deal with the drunkeness and lawlessness they have there. When my grandmother died she could not be buried by her husband and daughter because she was white, my grandfather and aunt were part indian so the Apache let them rest there. My family had put aside a plot there for the rest of the family to be buried there when it is time but the Apache said no more whites on thier land. Technically we are part white but you can't argue with Apache. Don't you think it is time to get rid of reservation camps?

1 comment:

  1. I do not think that time will ever come that we should stop this practice. Reguardless if they were first or not on the land they were here before us. We stole the land and slaughtered many of them. We then give them at the time some of the worst land there was in the country an forced them on these lands. If some of them are making a nice profit good for them. We have no right to enforce any laws on them considering what we have been to there people in the past.

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