Indian Reservation Oil

[Cobrabill]

Originally Posted by Roscoe

All the Indians here in Jersey own 7-11's.........

Roscoe

When Indians gewt married they scrape off that red dot on their brides forehead to see whether they won a 7-11 or a AM/PM.

[RAZOR]

Actually the land was not always stolen. The Pilgrims paid the Indians for land, so did the Puritans. William Penn received the largest land grant ever given by the King of England, but he recognized that the Indigenous people would not see it the same way and Penn paid them for the land. This is not to dismiss the violence against the Indians but it was not always a land grab.

[CobraEd]

Here is my simple minded question, . . . . . Aren't the indians free to move out into mainstream society and thus gradually reduce the need for the reservations. For the ones obviously unable to afford a college education, there are still lots of blue collar jobs out there. Why don't they gradually assimilate little by little. One generation of decent paying blue collar jobs leads to the next generation of white collar jobs.

The Irish, are no longer all cops in NYC, and the Italians are no longer all living in Little Italy in NYC. They have ASSIMILATED.



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