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To: TimF who wrote (158752)	1/23/2003 1:37:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Another example of that sense of morality that prompts us to correct past wrongs is exemplified by the special treatment and benefits present day Native Americans receive from state and federal gov'ts. This special treatment is fairly costly. And harmful to those that it is supposed to help. I am sorry but one article can be very misleading. The special incentives/benefits provided the N. American population are relatively new. The evidence of decay cited in that article are examples resulting from the accumulative effects of discrimination and abuse that had occurred in the 19th and much of the 20th centuries. I used to know the N.A. history from living in MN; however, I have forgotten much of it. However, the history of interaction between the Native American population and emigrant whites has not been a pretty one. By the end of the 19th century, after years of conflict, the N. Amer. population was slowly pushed onto lands set aside as reservations. The N.A. population, once a very nomadic people, were now confined to a single tract of land. Probably, out of an effort to keep them on the reservation, surplus foodstuffs were shipped to the reservations. Slowly, the reservation populations began to experience diseases such as diabetes that hitherto had not been a problem for them and had been exclusive to the white man. Alcoholism soared among Indian men. For decades, conditions deteriorated until about 20 years ago. It was then that the gov't took responsibility for what had been done....plus there were innumerable complaints of N.A. men getting drunk and shooting up small towns adjacent to the reservations...something had to be done. In addition, there had been a growing influx of homeless N. Americans into the larger cities of the West because they could not find work on the reservations. Since then, conditions have improved somewhat on some reservations. Here in WA state, casinos have helped establish a tax base and employment from which other industry can be developed. There are several tribes locally that are working with non Indian developers who want to take advantage of tax breaks and have turned their reservations into fairly properous operations, raising the standard of living for all who live on them. I understand that in NM and AZ, tribes there have taken advantage of training program and the reservations have become active in fighting the forest fires that hit the West every year. In other words, I see a difference between indifferent coddling as in sending surplus foodstuffs, and true retribution through special tax breaks, suspension of development of development laws, special training programs etc. ted