Why do we have Indian reservations?

[EnderJE]

Isn't that another way to keep them down? It's like affirmative action or hiring based on racial quotas? Aren't we just saying that "you aren't good enough" to give them some help?

[musclemom]

Because developers freaked out when some bleeding heart suggested giving Native Americans an acre of land ANYWHERE they want in this country?

[Razorguns]

It was designed as a way to keep indians far away from society, so they can drink, be violent, uneducated and live in poverty by themselves.

And the plan has worked well. Except for those 5-member 'indian' tribes that have casinos.

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[Tryn2]

I guess it's the least people could do after they took an entire country from them Lol...

[SouthernLord]

Quote posted by Grumpy Old Man Well seems reasonable since they are the only real Americans here in the US or Canada for that matter. Now what we need to do is keep the messikans someplace where they can breed in peace and still commute to mow my lawn.

California?

[BlueBird]

~Because the United States government is in breach of a load of treaties which give tribes back their ancestral lands....so, as concilation, they graciously set up *reserves* convinced that Indians prefer the company of wasteland rather than gold-filled hills and agrarian paradises.

[digimon7068]

Quote posted by EnderJE Isn't that another way to keep them down? It's like affirmative action or hiring based on racial quotas? Aren't we just saying that "you aren't good enough" to give them some help?

umm. . .i believe it's so we can have casino's in place where gambling isn't otherwise legal.

also, unlike the land that my family and i "own", there's actually "belongs" to them. . .doesn't matter who dies, that land belongs to their "nation".

[RottenWillow]

Quote posted by Grumpy Old Man Now what we need to do is keep the messikans someplace where they can breed in peace and still commute to mow my lawn.

watch it pops.

[digimon7068]

Quote posted by BlueBird ~Because the United States government is in breach of a load of treaties which give tribes back their ancestral lands....so, as concilation, they graciously set up *reserves* convinced that Indians prefer the company of wasteland rather than gold-filled hills and agrarian paradises.

the injuns got the last laugh. . .they built casinos and now they're building hills out of gold. . .

[myway]

There were indians in Oklahoma when I went, real ones. Just sayin. They put me in jail.