Policy Name: Indian reservations with basic needs.
Policy proposal: to provide money to the nation basic needs to each and every house on each reservations in the USA.
Objective: there to many homes on these reservations that don’t have basic needs, heat, water, electricity, sewage, why are these American’s being treated less then the rest of us, as well paved roads to get to and from where they live.
solution: provide them with enough money to run electricity, to each home that does not have it provided, to make sure each home has heating other then just a wood stove, make sure each has running water as well sewer system hooked up to each home.
1: give enough money to the nation to provide paved roads up to every home, as well any Bridges etc needed. 2: local utility companies to provide, electricity as well as water to each home and sewage. All the way to the homes, not just to a spot and leave the rest up to the home owners to provide. Or give them enough money to do it all as they see fit. 3: Allow each nations to reclaim sacred Nation lands and have them protected under the law. 4: provide money so these nations to have parks recreation areas for the children to play.
result: to allow the nations to have more of a voice would make the relationship better between the Indian community’s with the United States, as well build trust, to proved every American the needs to have a sweet home to live in, it would also show everyone that American’s in fact do come first.
The money that’s wasted on ridiculous studies that have nothing to do with bettering the life in the United States. This would make life better for All Americans, for the government to provide to all Americans.
These are sovereign nations. The federal government once gave the nations their “basic needs” and made thing worse. Have you ever heard of fry bread? If not, look up its history. And the history of how the federal government has treated these Nations. We don’t trust them (Feds).
I have Cherokee ancestors. I live in Western North Carolina. I wrote my senior thesis in college on research I did on the horrific era of Native American boarding schools and titled it “The Art of Manipulation”. Do you feel there is any way for sovereign nations to trust the federal government? If so, what would need to happen?
I have not heard of Fred bread in those term, I know y’all don’t trust the feds, not many of us don’t either, at this one most of all. It’s worth a try, maybe this will change.
I found I think it’s it but there’s not much there,all I see is Fry Bread is linked to the Forced relocation of Native American Tribes in the 1800, that they was forced from there Ancestral lands to remote reservations, it goes on about the government giving flour, salt, baking powder and land.
The problem I am having is first it was in the 1800, next why did they move everyone off there land. This is where teaching this in schools, people will understand how Indigenous people have been missing treated all these years
Fry bread is what our ancestors came up with in order to feed themselves. The ingredients were often infested (given to our ancestors that way) and frying it killed off the worms and other crawlies in the ingredients. And it was often all they had to eat because they didn’t know the earth they were moved to or how to gain food from it.
There was no diabetes before reservations and federal “help”. There was no heart disease. We were fed by Mother Earth and the sweat of our brow and skill with hunting.
No. We don’t want any more federal “help”. We’ve lost too much of our heritage and still do to this day.
Get out and stay out. Don’t mess with our land, our people, or our children. No federal determination of who is and isn’t part of our nations. Natives are the only people treated like animals who have to show pedigree to be part of a nation. Erase blood quantum and put citizenship of individuals back in the hands of the Native nations. Treat us as the Sovereign nations the federal government says we are.
I don’t disagree none of us really want any part of the government in our lives, I just seen a video, that a ingredient woman was trying to sell items on Tiltko to help by would for an older person who’s only heat was a wood stove, well that’s when I decided, I had enough of how y’all have been treated and voiced my opinion here, that our government should do better as well more for every American, it also stems from the disasters of the hurricane, where those people are left out in the cold. I am not trying to offend y’all just trying to help. I do understand how y’all feel.
The best way forward, if there is federal help, would be to treat the nations like they treat foreign nations. Send $ if that’s what is asked for. Send people or resources if asked. Only do what is asked if allowed on the reservation. Stay off the reservations & sacred lands (Inc. pipelines & “national parks”)
Mount Rushmore is part of the Blackfeet reservation & destroyed a sacred rock cropping called The Grandfathers. It was done despite protest from the Nation. Standing Rock is a sacred burial place. They want to destroy that for an oil pipeline instead of going around.
Until they leave and stay out - it’s impossible to trust. Return the items in museums that were taken from the corpses of our ancestors. Trust must be earned once broken.
Agreed so it’s best to give the Nation money and let y’all do everything needed to up grade every house hold needs to make there life’s better, on. So Mount Rushmore should be considered a national spot to be protected. The same with sacred land, that the National feel should be protected, after all it’s all part of our history and should be preserved as such. I am really glad your putting input to this, even if I have to rewrite my proposal, it would be worth it to me.
It’s not letting me change my reaction. It’s better. I feel like it could be better worded but I’m not brightest bulb any more. Had a stroke a couple years back. . Anyway. It does feel better.
The natives need either full sovereignty or full integration as States with representatives.
Living on trust land paying into multiple streams of revenue with no natural resources, on a patch of land far from their homeland under a system of welfare checks is the ultimate form of dependency and control.
400,000 live annually with no electricity.
1.2 million live annually with no running water.
Out of 6.6 million.
That’s the full population of the State of Missouri, and more than the entire city of Springfield, the third most populated city in my State.
Their only streams of revenue for their local governments, due to the total lack of natural resources, is tourism of the deplorable industry of gambling.
The US is in direct violation of treaties that were signed, and is perpetuating ideals of imperialistic land capture and subjugation. It is unacceptable.
on. So Mount Rushmore should be considered a national spot to be protected. The same with sacred land, that the National feel should be protected, after all it’s all part of our history and should be preserved as such. I am really glad your putting input to this, even if I have to rewrite my proposal, it would be worth it to me.
It’s better. I feel like it could be better worded but I’m not brightest bulb any more. Had a stroke a couple years back. 