"I think the "Tribes" need to sit down and shut up, and their "Tribal Rights" crap needs to be flushed at 9:00AM tomorrow"
I'll make a deal with ya. Let me come over to your house and lock you and nine of your family members up in your entry closet, (I don't care if you can't fit). I'll have some of my friends come over to raid your fridge and rape the women. You're not allowed to hunt, fish gather or trade to support your family, instead you can make due with the spoiled commodities that I give you. When you try and sneak out to hunt some food to serve to your starving/dying children, I kill someone in your family. When you cry about the cold and hunger I'll hand you a Bible and some small pox/TB infected blankets. After I'm done killing the rest of your family off I'll offer you a treaty, that says you can keep the closet all for yourself, as long as you never advance or become a permanent member of the rest of the modern world. I'll give you a little more time, then I'll take the closet back. I'll make sure you can't vote, or own property, because I don't consider you human, only a savage. then I'll draft you into the army with the hopes that you die overseas. If somehow you manage to survive the ordeal, I'll blame you for killing all the wildlife and call you something like "mup" or "injun" and make sure that you never get a fair chance as an "American" to advance whatever paltry population you have left and adapt to the modern world. When you allow me to do this, I'll go to every reservation on the West Coast and tell them to sit down and shut up personally.
The fact is, Natives don't want to take anything away from you, they don't give a sh** about you. They want a little room and some of what's left of the resources to maintain. They also want to be integrated into society as they realize they have no other choice but to adapt and that will be the only way for their children to improve on generations past and become self sufficient "red-blooded Americans". They want the same for their children as you want for yours. Food on the table, a chance at a good education, equality, peace.
I hope you spend every last dime in a casino, I hope your daughter marries a Native and has little mixed blood children that call you Grandpa and forces you to have just a little more compassion for what "ain't white".
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
President Merkin Muffley