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Originally Posted by arsenal
If they did decide to not honour the agreement, would you expect full compensation for breaking such agreement, to the point where you are given hand outs, not only for you, but for your grandchildrens-children-children? Say the reservations starting make more money, and your 4th generation grandchildren then come to Cheifs and ask for more money because said agreement was dishonered 4 generations ago.
And you have no problem with that, is that what you are getting at?
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I'll take whatever I can get for as long as I can get it if someone breaks that agreement. And if I happen to negotiate that my family gets certain things then I expect them to take whatever they can get as well, and forever, if that's how the contract was written.
Do you think you'd do otherwise? If your great-grandfather organized some sort of deal that saw a cheque land in your bank account every month, are you telling me you'd refuse it on general principle?
That's the funny thing about attitudes like this -- the Indians are trying to get what they can. The most money, land, rights, whatever they can get, and people bitch about it to no end. Then they go to work the next day and they try to get the most money, land, rights or whatever for the least amount of work, and it's a pat on the back.