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Published October 31, 2009

Indian country happy with Obama efforts chat

By Don Davis, E/P State Capitol Bureau

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b.a. c.
11/01/2009 2:10 PM

Believe it or not, not all reservations have casinos, successful or otherwise. In fact, some reservations are so remote that even if they did have a casino, they wouldn't get much action. One I can think of are the Navajo in Arizona. That one is on the most God-forsaken land I've ever seen. Makes the Badlands in South Dakota look like a garden spot.

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larry l.
Alexandria, MN     11/01/2009 12:42 PM

I'm not sure how Roots got into this. Seems like that would be an entirely different thread. However, in regards to helping the Indians, they're making millions by ripping off compulsive gamblers. Why do they still need OUR handouts? I read somewhere those handouts are actually payments for the land. Seems like an awful long time to be making "payments".

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Buck U.
11/01/2009 10:56 AM

I stand by my comments. Those that are given or should I say promised the most get the least. They fall into the dependency trap. They promise them the world and then give them just enough to get by, but still able to be considered victims and still in need of more "help" (empty promises). They don;t really want these people to have a good life because then these company store politicians would not be needed.

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Rob R.
Alexandria, MN     11/01/2009 9:06 AM

Careful Buck, them’s fightin’ words in these parts. Apparently, you aren’t aware that you can’t go around disparaging the very foundations of liberalism that way in these threads! Besides, you should certainly know by now that it’s nothing but the deep and inborn racism of WASPs that has caused virtually ALL the human suffering throughout human history. Listen, if you’re not wallowing in an ocean of guilt for what YOU PERSONALLY have done, then you just haven’t paid close enough attention to what the liberal elites have been telling us for all these decades! Next you’re going to suggest that Alex Haley made stuff up and passed it off as fact when he wrote “Roots!” Oh, the HUMANITY!!!

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Buck U.
11/01/2009 7:21 AM

Thee native American population is the best example of what happens when you rely on the government to take care of you. The government has destroyed the native Americans with promised handouts the have stripped their dignity and their work ethic. In the last 40-50 years, they did the same to the inter-city people by taking away their self determination through generational dependence and now are trying to do the same to the middle class with more so called handouts while bankrupting our country. It is sickening. The native americans have soveriegn land and don't have to pay taxes. If this is not a setup for success, I don't know what is. Now they just need to have the government quit "helping" them.

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Kerry H.
Prior Lake, MN     10/31/2009 11:57 AM

It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of a Native American gentleman who used to post on this forum a year or so ago regarding this story and the promises now being made by the federal government. I assume most readers are unaware of the current issues facing Native Americans. I know I would like to read what (I believe it was...) Bob B has to say about this.

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