How does Ron Paul feel about repairing relations with Native Americans?

[camp_steveo]

Ron Paul likum repair relations with Native Americans. Also make legal smokum peace pipe.

How! & how?

 

[brushfire]

A little cyan peppa for spice:

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Why does he call himself an American Indian, when Native American is more correct? They have nothing to do with Indians.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

A little cyan peppa for spice:

1:10 That guy's name is Tom Poor Bear? Really? LOL

 

[Lishy]

Not sure what Paul would do, but here in Canada the issue is native American homes have no value, so they are unable to escape the reserves where they will find jobs. No matter how much aid money we pump, nothing gets done because it is only a temporary solution.

If we truly want to help them, we must build resources closer to the reserves, create job opportunities, and somehow open up the pathway to owning a property.

 

[jmdrake]

I read an interesting report that some native tribes are attracting businesses because they are except from certain federal and state regulations due to native American sovereignty. I think Ron Paul would further empower Indian nations to build their own economic future. And he's using the bullypulpit to preach sound money would be a boon to the Bank of Lakota.

http://www.freelakotabank.com/

Plus he would put an end to federal tyranny against competing currencies.

 

[specsaregood]

Why does he call himself an American Indian, when Native American is more correct? They have nothing to do with Indians.

Perhaps the first step towards regaining your sovereignty is figuring out that you can call yourself whatever the hell you feel like.
Also, how is "native american" any more correct? This land wasn't called america when the injuns settled it.

 

[oyarde]

So they can purchase their land?

No need for that , have them call me , I will trade them Sacramento , Chicago , Cleveland and Philadelphia for four cases of beer .

 

[Brian4Liberty]

To me : native Americans = Mexicans

Not really. Two hundred years ago, the peoples who lived in what is now the US were not the same people who lived in what is now Mexico. A Mohegan is not an Aztec. Neither was a Californio. America is a huge continent, with many different peoples.

 

[Butchie]

What exactly do you mean "repair" relations? This is 2012 friend, the only relations that exist are the one's people have made for themselves, enough of this broken treaty nonsense, and while I'm at it - the slavery nonsense, the oppressed women nonsense, the abused Chinamen on the railroad, all of it, I'm sick to death of hearing this crap, I did nothing to any of these people, and what they are compalining about happened long before any of them were born, shut up about it already.

 

[Lishy]

Aren't the names of tribes the "Aboriginals"?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

For the most part, I do not agree. Many Indians were given headrights and became quite wealthy overnight. I did not agree with that, as no one alive today had one thing to do with what happened generations ago. Furthermore, those Indians that live on reservations today chose to do that, instead of getting involved in the rest of society.

I grew up very close to a reservation. Only one family that I remember chose to leave the reservation and move to town. Their sons and daughters went to school and then on to college. They are very successful today. Those who stayed at the reservation chose to live with what the government doled out to them. Different choices; different outcomes.

We are all responsible for our choices. Even Indians.

I agree, as someone who also has some pre-colonization North American blood. The history of what has happened to Native peoples is tragic. What has happened to them with the equivalent of welfare on reservations is just as tragic. Welfare destroys people. It always does. The best thing for the good of individuals on reservations is to leave the reservation!

The main question is what to do with the existing reservations? Should they become truly their own nations? Should they become their own States within the US? Should they just integrate directly into the States they are now located?

If they become their own nations, here's what Ron Paul might do to be consistent: immediately cut-off all foreign aid.

And what is being done now with gambling on Indian reservations is another great tragedy. We are turning them into nothing more than islands of corporatist domination. Essentially we are turning them into pre-Castro Cubas. What future is there for small nations created as safe harbors for gambling interests?

No easy solution to these problems, but with the new monied interests involved, the problems will no doubt get worse over time.

 

[Revolution9]

I read an interesting report that some native tribes are attracting businesses because they are except from certain federal and state regulations due to native American sovereignty. I think Ron Paul would further empower Indian nations to build their own economic future. And he's using the bullypulpit to preach sound money would be a boon to the Bank of Lakota.

http://www.freelakotabank.com/

Plus he would put an end to federal tyranny against competing currencies.

As well...I knew one of the elders who lived in Atlanta several years back and they have thick pure gold veins on their land and the US military is parked next to the boundary where it is but they are unable to extract it due to government restrictions. I would presume that private property rights prevail and the mineral rights to the tribe.

Rev9

 

[guysenjem]

He can allow them to be part of tribal nations and release them from our welfare, entitlements, and special rights. Or they can choose to be Americans and be treated as Individuals with no special rights.