Dr Democrat wrote:
I am a full blood enrolled member of the Tewa Tribe.
We prefer to be called Indians. Any person born in the United States is a Native American. Tribal members are called INDIANS. Just call us what we are.
All Indians are not the same. Thats is the biggest misconception that people make.
Real Indians want to be LEFT ALONE, not necessarily to do their tradition, but to not be constatntly bombarded with the complicated laws, taxes, regulations of the white american government. We as Indian do NOT want to be rich. We just want to be left alone and not subject to your contant civilized legal agenda.
This is correct.
I can emphasize this by comparing it to Brown Vs Board of Education, Plessy vs Ferguson, and several other legal battles of minorities vs the American Government.
You see, Blacks and Mexicans and other "colored people" in the United States want do not want to be separatists. They want the same rights as white people. They want equal treatment. Indians are the only exception. Indians do not want equal treatment. They are sovereign nations and always have been.
INDIANS ARE SEPARATISTS FOR A REASON.
Leave them alone and act like they dont even exist.
That is exactly what they (we) want. We as Indian get what we get, simply because we are a Nation-State and we are still a Sovereign Nation thats trying to survive within the lager U.S. Nation. We have always been here. Whites will always just be the people in Washington that outnumber us, out-gun us, and took our land away.
We are not asking anything from the American Government other than simple necessities of life and to be left alone, but the Government wont even let us do that. Google Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and see scores and scores and scores of dilapitated shacks and greezy nasty oiley slymie garbage trailer homes with an average of 30 people living in each one.
Pine Ridge has recently passed Haiti as the #1 poorest place on earth.