Life on the rez

[Half Cocked]

Peter Santenello visits Fort Apache Reservation.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89LsPl0EqKY[/media]

 

[cool arrow]

this is a long watch, but well worth it

 

[MarkItZero]

Reservation Dogs is a good show too

 

[kenpoprofessor]

This was not the least bit "enlightening", it's kinda the same for all the reservations, bunch of drunk indians who won't work, and enjoy getting the free ride from the government. I've worked with way too many of them that were "off the rez" to understand them. There are a few anomalies that gave me a bit of hope though. Personally, I think it's time to end the "reservations" and start making them assimilate in US society. Take back the land, they've had 150 years to do something with it and they squander it like spoiled children.

The first time they did it, it was "underfunded", so, instead of giving money to Ukraine, or any other foreign nations, let's do this again.


https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/indian-relocation.html


Bring back "Operation Wetback" as well.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

 

[baja]

Interesting video, thanks for posting.

 

[Half Cocked]

The Indians on the reservations are hooked on "free stuff" from the government. In the first part of the above video one of the Apache Indians admitted as much and at the same time they do not want to give up the handouts from the government. These government freebies have created an environment where the Indians do not have to work for a living and instead spend their time drinking and doing drugs. The government is actually an enabler for these druggies and alcoholics who have nothing better to do than get wasted.

So, which political party gains the most from making these "noble savages" dependent on government handouts? It appears that the clear winner is the democRats.

Precinct-level data shows that outside of heavily blue metropolitan areas like Phoenix and Tucson, which also have high numbers of Indigenous voters, much of the rural blue islands that have voted for Biden and Mark Kelly, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, are on tribal lands. On some Tohono O’odham Nation precincts, Biden and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris won 98% of the vote. As of Nov. 9, the three counties that overlap with the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation went for Biden at a rate of 57%, as opposed to 51% statewide. Voter precincts on the Navajo Nation ranged from 60-90% for Biden.

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Map showing how different Arizona precincts voted in the 2020 Presidential election (left). Map of tribal lands in Arizona

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-how-indigenous-voters-swung-the-2020-election/
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The democRats are exploiting the failed Indian reservation system by keeping the reservation Indians in poverty with government welfare. As long as the Indians remain on the rez while reliant on government handouts they will remain mired in a life of poverty, drug abuse, and criminal activity.
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[pneuby]

Chapparal Road, JUST east of the 101....
The north side of the street is a Scottsdale Community College
campus and an adjunct site for NAU. On the south side, across
from it, is a little square of about a dozen homes.

All of the homes are good-sized, and appear to be custom builds.
Nothing cookie-cutter in there. The southeast corner of that little
neighborhood looks like a honest-to-goodness junkyard. Just disgusting,
seriously. It makes Fred Sanford's front lot look like a museum, by comparison!

Why?

Why no pride in the appearance of your home, your street/s, your little
neighborhood? Is if becaue the 'Tribe' owns the home, not 'you' as the occupant?

 

[QuietM4]

I kept expecting the hear, “brought to you by Winchester”.

The best thing for the tribes would be to repeal their sovereign status and just give them the land to do with as they wish. No more hand outs. Go ahead and assimilate fully with the country.

 

[xerts1191]

Pretty sad