tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post113839008620910679..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Freedom for the IndiansHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1138416637176048402006-01-27T21:50:00.000-05:002006-01-27T21:50:00.000-05:00These property issues have percolated all through ...These property issues have percolated all through the endless revisions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as well -- always with the subtext that individual claimants couldn't be trusted to manage their affairs responsibly, so control was always vested in village corporations. Unfortunately, these arrangements always seem to end in corruption, anger, clan feuds, and just about as many poor Indians as there were before. Precious few of the casino tribes in the lower 48 have avoided these problems either. I'd say it's time to at least act like we believe that Indians can manage their affairs just as well as the rest of us can, and give them transferable property rights to what is rightfully theirs. While we're at it would could let them use Ward Churchill for bison food, but that probably belongs in a different thread.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1138404206385409282006-01-27T18:23:00.000-05:002006-01-27T18:23:00.000-05:00Wired had a very interesting article on Indian tri...Wired had a very interesting article on Indian tribes a few months ago. Essentially, each tribe has a different standard for membership, usually around the "percentage" of tribal genetic material you have in you.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1138395793491704242006-01-27T16:03:00.000-05:002006-01-27T16:03:00.000-05:00I know that there are some issues with private pro...I know that there are some issues with private property on Indian reservations. At least some tribes had problems based on the fact that the members tended to divide land into ridiculously tiny increments to pass to relatives after they died. Part of the problem may be that the Indian culture had very little sense of real property (meaning real estate).Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1138393349440493602006-01-27T15:22:00.000-05:002006-01-27T15:22:00.000-05:00It's an interesting idea. And frankly, anything wi...It's an interesting idea. And frankly, anything with potential to improve Native Americans' well-being and self-determination is worth a shot.<BR/><BR/>I was offered a job to do CPS work on a reservation in New Mexico for the feds. It's a great paying job. I'd rather stab myself in the head repeatedly than be that utterly depressed.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1138390609748922512006-01-27T14:36:00.000-05:002006-01-27T14:36:00.000-05:00I second the motion.I second the motion.Jay D. Homnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714671338316275833noreply@blogger.com