" I REST MY CASE " .......Y'ALL !

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Times and circumstances change...but only if one doesn't insist on living in the past....

Eventually people will figure that out.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Even you?

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

P.P.S. Bears: "Ya' got another possbile explanation of the whole stuck-in-the-stoneage for thousands of years BS?...Other than child abuse and "programming"?"
 
I'm honestly curious here, seriously. Being that you were born into the richest and most arguably free nation that's ever existed; just exactly WHO beat/programmed you as a child into limting yourself to just being a proud "TRUE Native" and nothing more in life? Especially with the "Affirmative Action" BS; you could've pretty much done anything you wanted to and had the personal drive and brains for....Doctor Black Bears/Commisoned Officer/His Honor Black Bears/literally whatever you wanted and could manage. All doors were artificially and unfairly held wide open to you. What happened? Was it the same sort of shamans/idiots that so very clearly beat/whatever the thinking and experimental side out of your ancestors for thousands of years, thus explaining the europeans easy conquest of said shamans' peoples with far more advanced weapons than they'd ever even imagined possible?
 
Am I just being culturally "insensitive" here, by simply wondering whether the shamanistic/stone aged savage thing's still an integral part of tribal "culture"?...Likewise the child abuse/forcibly dumbing-down and programming? If children anywhere in America are still being afflicted with such insane BS...well, there's something really, really wrong going on in your childhood neighborhood. Be every bit as "proud" of that as you've clearly been programmed to be.....
 
For what little it's worth; for myself?....If I draw back the curtains of history even a few centuries; my ancestors were nothing more than abused and wholly owned peasants working themselves to death for the benefit of then "superior nobility" in europe. Times and circumstances change...but only if one doesn't insist on living in the past....

 
Go study your history, (Precisely the Fort Laramie treaty/1868) .......then show all the folks here on the 'cooler.....how much More you've learned.
Pay close attention to those "MIneral rights"(for starters) that you were pontificationg about !
My " beef " is strictly South Dakota, most southeastern Montana and northeastern wyoming, where there ain't much going on in these places even today, save for the CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY in Sioux Falls SD.
 
I'm Curious.  Are you a MAN of your WORD ?   SITTING BULL   W  A  S ! (Just ask the Feds and Gen. CUSTER)
Oh, and as far as Sitting Bull was, he knew changes were coming and encouraged his children to learn the White mans language, and ways,...BUT...NEVER Trust them !
 
NOW.....Go do your studying  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!