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Originally Posted by SeeBass
Exactly my point, the natives were doing this long before the white man came and kicked their butts. The Souix, were no better.
It is just another long line of one advanced society beating another.
It sucks that this happened to people but as a person of native mix I am no more mad at what people did to other people before I was born than my wife of Jewish heritage is mad at Germans.
Nobody should pay or feel quilty due to the sins of their father.
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Yep. As someone who holds Polish citizenship, I harbour no ill feelings towards Germans or Russians, but they both did the people of our country a lot of harm (and much more recently than what happened here I might add, my grandmother who's only been gone almost 2 years was around for the majority of it all!). I don't believe I deserve any additional benefits for that, because:
A. It happens, and
B. It was a long time ago, and those people don't want to invade and fight wars anymore.
By constantly laying blame and reminding them of the atrocities, you're only breeding more hate.
On the reserve system, yeah, abolish it. Have the government state that it's broken, the band leaders tend to live lavishly with the rest suffering, and institute a program with a set timeline to integrate and take away the rights. Find the corrupt band leaders, and arrest them. If the reserve ownership is split amongst the band members, give them all land (the reserve land, or equivalent) and be DONE with it. Does any other country in the world do this?