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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s 2022.

Anyone opting to live on a reservation is living in self-imposed segregation.

They opt to live there and can’t get mortgages because there’s no way for a lender to foreclose if they default. The end result is subpar housing. That’s a choice they are making by living there. Nobody is forcing them to remain [/quote]

Sorry we took away your livelihood by killing all the buffalo and reducing your territory to one tenth it’s original size, but really, it’s your fault if you can’t make it work. [/quote]

I agree that the Europeans who arrived and eventually built our American democracy committed many atrocities against Indians—as well as against the European women and American women. And the poor. And the Africans brought here in chains and their progeny. Lots of really awful stuff.

But I’m talking about now. 2022.

Read up on what’s happening in Indian country now. It’s awful. [/quote]

You can’t connect how what happened over the last few centuries impacts people today? 
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I can. Can you?

You seem to be solely fixated on what happened at a point in time.

At some point tribes made decisions. And individuals made decisions.

There are countless studies on Indian country. Few are faring well. [/quote]

What do you mean, tribes made decisions? At the beginning of the 19th century, it was the official policy of the US government to move all remaining Indians west of the Mississippi, whether they wanted to go or not. Then, over the following 70 years, the government let white people cross the Midwest reservations on their way out west (hunting and eating everything as they went, leaving the Indians to starve) and ultimately breaking up many of the reservations around 1900 and selling them off in pieces. None of this was done with the consent of the tribes and mostly done in violation of the treaties. The tribes have been going to court over this for almost 200 years, and continue to sue both states and the federal government. The tribes are actively fighting unilateral US actions and pursuing legal remedies, they aren’t “making decisions” against their interests. But thanks for your ignorant spin on things. [/quote]

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