Harvest Quota Cut in Half

[northender]

laportian,

This will be my last posting on this thread here.

Regarding taxes being divided among all? Nationwide, per capita, Native Americans in the form of services and actual dollars dished out directly, receive about $500 to every $1 the rest of the population gets from the U.S. Treasury, across all races and ethnic origins. And there is nothing wrong with that if the need is there. But don't act like this is a level playing field. Because it's not. It is slanted, heavily, toward you and your people. In the era of Native American owned Casino's, including the Leech Lake Band, more tax dollars flow your way now than before the Casino age. Tax dollars, not Casino dollars, have done all the big improvements on reservations the past decade or two, no different than before the Casino era. Band government employees are all paid with U.S. tax dollars, solely. You get the cake and you get to eat it too.

Because you "can" is a poor way to convey your attitude toward the rest of your fellow "citizens". Maybe it is time to become a true american citizen, that stands for "everyone is created equal". And in the process, quit playing this game of "I will take what I can", no matter what others think or what costs it puts on others and what negative effects it has on natural resources. It's time to be an honest citizen instead of one that portrays a false view of reality to the rest of society.

Some day, that reality will be exposed. The Native Amercian world would be better served if they exposed how things have been working rather than others doing it, and start changing the way they do business with their fellow tax-payers. So drop the attitude and look in the mirror.

[Hawg]

Laportian-Well, here we go. Are there any rights I have as a citizen that you don't? Why should you have rights that I don't? Don't give me that beaten down business because it's another case of not wanting equality, it's a question of always wanting more. This post is about to be dusted I'm guessing. My last post also, I'm sick of it all. It just promotes racism and I actually do try my best to understand, but I don't like getting unequal rights rubbed in my face.

[gregg52]

explain this to me Laportian

The grand casino( mille lacs) takes $$$$$$$$$$ how much a yr???

and across the steet the indian muesuem built cost roughly

a million and came from mn tax payers???

do you think we should support you and yours on the rez when

you are making millions in the casino and not paying a dime in taxes

where does all that money go ???

i know mystic lakes divides it up among their memebers

but not the grand casino bunch

you know you cant have your cake and eat it to

[John Mickish]

Guys your out of control and skirting close to being locked down. Just because you don't like the answer dosent mean its wrong. Nobody, and I mean nobody can control what race they are born into or control their particular races history. I suggest some of you should reread the policy about directing negative comments to another.

Last warning.

[laportian]

Northender-We are true citizens, who also have a dual citizenship to our tribes. In being citizens of our tribes we have rights that you don't. If we have these rights how is using them wrong. We have them and we use them.

As far as tax dollars we get them and use them, level or not we get tax money as does everyone else in this country. The federal govt. made decisions that we as a group are wards of the govt.

The govt. failed to assimilate or exterminate us totally and we were promised alot of things for what was done.

The old argument that we need to get over it and get on holds no water. Until you can walk a mile in my shoes you have no right to tell us to get on with it. You don't even have a clue as to the atrocities we have been dealt.

I am living proof that things aren't left in the past. My children have been spit on for being indian, this did not happen 100 years ago. My mother was taken from her mother at the age of 7, because the govt. thought indian families should be broken up because it was policy at the time.

My grandmother and her older sister were taken by the govt. and placed in a boarding school where they were raped and abused. Her older sister was stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors by a nun while getting her hair cut for not speaking english.

There were forced sterilizations of our Native women still happening as recently as the 70's.

We were only allowed to openly practice out religon beginning in 1978. Same with the Indian Child Welfare Act of the same year, we were only allowed to keep our children then.

It goes on and on, and you want me to be a good little indian dont you? No I will not conform lightly, we will heal on our own accord.

Your assumption that we need to to this or that to conform is wrong. We exist and we did not chose any of this; it is just how it is.

So your privelege allows you tell me that I need to be a true american citizen, that I should stand for everyone being created equal?