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Originally Posted by tete
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Ok. I've read through Treaty One, and I fully admit that I am not versed in any sort of lawyerism. But it looks to me like that was a pretty straight up one time thing. "You give us this land. We provide that land, $3 bucks each, a school at your request, and some other baubles depending on family size and the like. We agree to a peace between our peoples, and we all go our separate ways".
I don't see (though admit that I may simply not recognize) anything that says "We'll pretty much pay for everything for your tribe until the end of time."
It seems that would be an easy contract to fill. The govt gets the chunk of land named therein, the natives get the land named therein. The govt pays the natives the alloted amount per native. Builds them a school when they want it (Nothing was said about the content of that school, but that's a whole 'nother thread...) and everything's on the up and up.
Can't be that easy, though. After all, the gov't isn't handing out $3 (inflation adjusted) and a blanket to newborn Natives.