Lakota break away from US

[eflatminor]

With the treatment they've received, it's a miracle every Native American tribe hasn't done the same!!!

By "treatment", are you referring to massive government entitlements? Hasn't worked out so well for those Indians on the dole. Those Indians NOT on the dole...they're doing just fine.

Oh really?? They're doing just fine ehhh? Read these statistics about Pine Ridge and tell me they are doing "just fine." We are a strong people and racism does not promote anything. It only tells how evil you are towards others. But here are the stats:
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The Republic of Lakota described ongoing genocide as follows:

(1) Mortality

Life expectancy for Lakota men is less than 44 years. It's the lowest of all sovereign countries. It's the highest in America. Infant mortality is threefold higher than the US average. Diseases are a major problem. "Cancer is now at epidemic proportions."

Teenage suicide is150% higher than America's average. One-fourth of Lakota children are fostered or adopted by non-Native people. Doing so destroys their identity and culture. Ward Churchill calls it killing the Indian, saving the man.

(2) Disease

Tuberculosis is 800% higher than America's average. Cervical cancer is fivefold higher. Diabetes is eight times the national average. The Federal Commodity Food Program provides high-sugar foods. They contribute to poor health.

(3) Poverty

Annual median income is $2,600 - $3,500. Poverty affects 97% of Lakotans. Many families can't afford essentials most people take for granted. In winter, many use ovens for heat. Simple luxuries are unheard of. Life is hard, merciless, punishing, and unrelenting.

(4) Unemployment

It's 80% or higher. Government corruption, cronyism, and indifference destroy normal living opportunities.

(5) Housing

In winter, elderly people die from hypothermia. They freeze to death for lack of heat. One-third of homes lack clean water and sewage. About 40% have no electricity. About 60% of families have no telephone.

Another 60% of homes are infected with potentially fatal black molds. On average, 17 people reside in each household. Many have two to three rooms. Some homes built for six to eight people have up to 30 in them.

(6) Drugs and Alcohol

Over half of adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism affects 90% of families. Two known methamphetamine labs operate. Authorities haven't closed them.

(7) Incarceration

Indian children imprisonment exceed whites by 40%. Native People comprise 2% of South Dakota's population. They account for 21% of those imprisoned.

Indians have the second highest state prison incarceration rate in America. Most live on federal reservations. Less than 2% are where states have jurisdiction.

(8) Culture

It's threatened with extinction. It's federal policy to destroy it. Only 14% of Lakotans speak their language. It's not shared inter-generationally.

The average fluent Lakotan speaker is 65 years old. In another generation or less, perhaps few or none will remain. Lakotan language skills aren't allowed or taught in US government schools. Nor is much of anything about native history and culture. America wants it destroyed and forgotten.

Lakotan struggle began with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. They call it "fantasy" US history. France sold America 530 million Native land acres for $15 million. Lakotans owned part of it. They and other Native people weren't consulted.

They've been systematically ignored and violated. From 1778 - 1871, Washington negotiated 372 treaties. Their provisions were systematically spurned.

America's winning the West involved invading, encroaching, stealing, and occupying their lands. That's how imperialism works. It's the same everywhere.

Wow! Your first post and it's a monumental FAIL! That's a hell of a start there pal!

The video, which you clearly did not view, talks about the plight of the Indians THAT RECEIVE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS. Those Indians, clearly, are not thriving. They're faltering badly, generation after generation.

Pine Ridge is a Sioux reservation. The Sioux are dependent on government handouts.

Now look at those tribes that DO NOT get handouts. As the video shows, they are THRIVING.

Good God man, at least review the link before commenting on it. All the problems you list are avoided by the tribes that must compete in the real world. Those that stay on reservations hoping for more government assistance? They're the ones suffering as you describe.

So, how do you square that?

 

[whitehall]

Too much money in gambling casinos. The American Indians have been corrupted for good.

 

[eflatminor]

Too much money in gambling casinos. The American Indians have been corrupted for good.

Perhaps, but as the video I posted demonstrates, the tribes that are thriving do not get government assistance nor do they own casinos. They earn a living just like everyone else and low and behold, they do well...very well! Meanwhile, the tribes that get massive government assistance suffer horribly generation after generation.

Reminds me of LBJ's so called 'great society', which was launched to eliminate poverty and lift up Black Americans. 45 years and trillions of dollars later, poverty is up! And the Black man is not exactly thriving.

At what point do we begin to question all these entitlements? At what point do we consider they may be doing more harm than good? The situation with Indian tribes on the dole vs those not on the dole makes the point very clear in my opinion. Government handouts ultimately harm the recipients of those entitlements.

 

[eflatminor]

By "treatment", are you referring to massive government entitlements? Hasn't worked out so well for those Indians on the dole. Those Indians NOT on the dole...they're doing just fine.

Oh really?? They're doing just fine ehhh? Read these statistics about Pine Ridge and tell me they are doing "just fine." We are a strong people and racism does not promote anything. It only tells how evil you are towards others. But here are the stats:
___________________________________________________________________
The Republic of Lakota described ongoing genocide as follows:

(1) Mortality

Life expectancy for Lakota men is less than 44 years. It's the lowest of all sovereign countries. It's the highest in America. Infant mortality is threefold higher than the US average. Diseases are a major problem. "Cancer is now at epidemic proportions."

Teenage suicide is150% higher than America's average. One-fourth of Lakota children are fostered or adopted by non-Native people. Doing so destroys their identity and culture. Ward Churchill calls it killing the Indian, saving the man.

(2) Disease

Tuberculosis is 800% higher than America's average. Cervical cancer is fivefold higher. Diabetes is eight times the national average. The Federal Commodity Food Program provides high-sugar foods. They contribute to poor health.

(3) Poverty

Annual median income is $2,600 - $3,500. Poverty affects 97% of Lakotans. Many families can't afford essentials most people take for granted. In winter, many use ovens for heat. Simple luxuries are unheard of. Life is hard, merciless, punishing, and unrelenting.

(4) Unemployment

It's 80% or higher. Government corruption, cronyism, and indifference destroy normal living opportunities.

(5) Housing

In winter, elderly people die from hypothermia. They freeze to death for lack of heat. One-third of homes lack clean water and sewage. About 40% have no electricity. About 60% of families have no telephone.

Another 60% of homes are infected with potentially fatal black molds. On average, 17 people reside in each household. Many have two to three rooms. Some homes built for six to eight people have up to 30 in them.

(6) Drugs and Alcohol

Over half of adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism affects 90% of families. Two known methamphetamine labs operate. Authorities haven't closed them.

(7) Incarceration

Indian children imprisonment exceed whites by 40%. Native People comprise 2% of South Dakota's population. They account for 21% of those imprisoned.

Indians have the second highest state prison incarceration rate in America. Most live on federal reservations. Less than 2% are where states have jurisdiction.

(8) Culture

It's threatened with extinction. It's federal policy to destroy it. Only 14% of Lakotans speak their language. It's not shared inter-generationally.

The average fluent Lakotan speaker is 65 years old. In another generation or less, perhaps few or none will remain. Lakotan language skills aren't allowed or taught in US government schools. Nor is much of anything about native history and culture. America wants it destroyed and forgotten.

Lakotan struggle began with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. They call it "fantasy" US history. France sold America 530 million Native land acres for $15 million. Lakotans owned part of it. They and other Native people weren't consulted.

They've been systematically ignored and violated. From 1778 - 1871, Washington negotiated 372 treaties. Their provisions were systematically spurned.

America's winning the West involved invading, encroaching, stealing, and occupying their lands. That's how imperialism works. It's the same everywhere.

Wow! Your first post and it's a monumental FAIL! That's a hell of a start there pal!

The video, which you clearly did not view, talks about the plight of the Indians THAT RECEIVE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS. Those Indians, clearly, are not thriving. They're faltering badly, generation after generation.

Pine Ridge is a Sioux reservation. The Sioux are dependent on government handouts.

Now look at those tribes that DO NOT get handouts. As the video shows, they are THRIVING.

Good God man, at least review the link before commenting on it. All the problems you list are avoided by the tribes that must compete in the real world. Those that stay on reservations hoping for more government assistance? They're the ones suffering as you describe.

So, how do you square that?

Crickets! I hear crickets there Chief! What's the matter? Why no response? Can I take it that you now agree tribes that do not "benefit" from federal oversight are doing far better than those that do? Excellent. Maybe it's time for you to get off the damn dole.