Howdy all !! If this topic doesn't get a sportsmans blood boiling nothing will. I am personally offended when someone else gets more "rights" than I do. The "natives" are no different than us. We are all descendants from someone, but WHO CARES! Just because you have X blood and I have Y blood doesn't mean that one of us gets different rules to live by. Now I wouldn't trade places with most people in the "villages", just by the outward appearance of the dwellings it doesn't appear to be a happy place. I do have several questions about the reservations (on the O.P. for example,) maybe some folks can educate me on this topic. Who pays to build the "track" housing as seen in some villages? Who pays for all the biologists that DH says the tribes have? Who builds the roads on the reservations and who supplies the "company" cars? Are the natives able to receive welfare, foodstamps, medical coupons, social security? Do natives have to pay income tax and sales tax as well as s.s. and medicare witholding? Are the utilities subsidized? These are all rumors that I have heard for years, and I am hoping someone can set the record straight if only for a specific tribe. If some of these questions are true then why do we (US citizens) allow this to happen? It is not right that someone gets the best of both worlds. Either you are an American and you get gov. assistance if you qualify, or you are a foreign nation and you are self supporting. I don't care who was here first, it was 200+ years ago. The history of the world has evolved by wars, you either won or lost, and if you lost you changed or you were killed. I don't support war, but it happens and life (sometimes) goes on. Sorry for the rambling, let the flaming begin