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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 244455" data-attributes="member: 3373">Another discussion I should stay out of but I do have something to say or ask. Is there anything, especially in this area, that is more racist than reservations. I'm not an expert but were reservations not established to basically keep the Indians (as they were known when treaties were written) away from the whites? And to allow the whites to settle in the west?Isn't it true that Indians (not trying to be impolite, just using terms that were used back then) of the belief that no one owned land. Different tribes settled in different areas but no one owned the land. And if one tribe wandered on to another tribes territory a skirmish may occur. Which was the same reason that Indians and whites had battles.Reservations have outgrown their original purpose. There is no reason to keep Native Americans from the whites. There is no reason for any of them to be treated any differently than any other American. I realize that to dissolve all reservations is a huge undertaking as you can't just dissolve a way of life overnight. As it currently is, too many Native Americans have been raised in a life of poverty with little to encourage them to change that life. I'm not talking about all Native Americans, or even a majority in many cases, but the truth is that too many of them don't see a lot of hope in their future. For me, most of that is caused by encouraging them to become too reliant on the government. Another prime example of socialism at its finest.You may now start blaming me for being so non-caring about a group of Americans that have been mistreated by our government for years. Give them enough to keep them in line, but no more. They must be kept reliant on the government.</blockquote>

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