One of my best friends is 100% Blackfeet, and he laughs at the "Native American" stuff, as do his Indian friends. They all call themselves Indians, hence the Browning Indians. The libs may not like it, but they don't really care what white libs think.
Then let them live in the conditions as the did when the treaties were signed
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You are still arguing with yourself.Or are we gonna pick and choose?
Where is the expiration date on the treaties?Then let them live in the conditions as the did when the treaties were signed
You Need to get out of Wyoming too. That’s their lands. It was in one of the treaties.
Start packing.
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The Crow reservation, For the most part some of the best land in South East and Central Montana.
This is true. Some beautiful habitat that is almost completely void of deer and elk.
Also some of the best grazing land in the wolf mountains and the foot hills of the Bighorns and Priors. Prime farm land on the Big Horn and Little Big Horn rivers. Some very nice country on the Cheyenne too. If the Gov. had been hell bent on putting the reservations on the poorest land, both of those reservations would be in the gumbo north of the Yellowstone.
Yeah, the Flathead-Salish-Kootenay Reservation is just barren and ugly too.
The current state of affairs is quite a mess in my opinion. But as is the case with most matters of Native American affairs, one of the biggest reasons it was set up this way was for the white settlers. This legal framework left NA non-citizens and without a right to vote in federal elections until 1924. A benefit for the early white settlers at the time. But of course once there is any benefit for a tribe and any inconvenience for others we want to revisit it. A pattern repeated routinely over the last 150 yrs.
Like so many things about America, we were not the first, but we “perfected” and industrialized it to a whole other level. I don’t think a single person on this thread has argued against the reality that slavery was a part of broad history, so not “disingenuous.” You are just making up a phony argument with yourself to somehow make the treatment of non-whites in the US for a few hundred years OK - or above criticism.
Always interesting to watch you post.I know the Blackfeet are actively attempting to "recoup" their land from America's GNP.
They already have their cattle grazing East Glacier.
NPS / DOI don't want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Occasionally, a bit of "fence" here and there is repaired, ten feet from a 500' swath of torn down wire.
1855 treaty basically said NW MT was Blackfeet (generalized).
1895, Blackfeet sold their area for 1.5million. Corrupt Blackfeet and Gov officials worked the system and created the Blackfeet as "wards of the State".
1913, Blackfeet commissioner declared themselves, "Bankrupt".
1932, US District Court reviewed the content of the sale regarding their contention they can hunt, fish, gather, and carry out traditional practices on the land they sold and concluded, Blackfeet failed to establish the extent to which they used the "reserved privileges" from 1895 to 1910 and had therefore forfeited these rights.” the designation for GNP, as we know it, remains today.
An interesting history. While I'm friends with a BIA within MT, Blackfeet have run into internal corruption for a long while. Good Blackfeet found it a challenge to break through this internal political greed - such as:
An ugly history, hell bent on individual greed. Blackfeet have three times the aggravated crime rate of the 2nd highest reservation rate in MT.
Browning may have it's peaceful people, though it's one place to get gas before, drive through, and continue the drive.
Friends with some or not, there are challenges within the tribal community.
I shared this a couple years when a thread popped up about Browning. Want just a taste of life on the Blackfeet reservation? This article's a great read of perseverance and the extreme internal hardships faced by those breaking from the corruption and crime.
How the Blackfeet Nation Boxing Club is fighting to save the lives of Native American women
Indigenous women go missing and are murdered at alarming rates. In "Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible," a group of Native American women train in self-defense as a means of survival.www.espn.com
Interesting developments by a conservative leaning SCOTUS with Wyoming and Oklahoma tribal treaty disputes.
For chits n grins, as we all share opinions, the "Native Americans" should have been assimilated into America, as Americans. No reservations, no treaties, but hey, JMO.
Haha... #*^@#* you Buzz. Typical Buzz commentary.
Still in denial...
Yes you are. Butthurt over your compadre. Keep playing your bully boy games, I'll be your huckleberry in this thread as well...
