Rule Allows Native Hawaiians to Form Their Own Government - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51136162]one of the main reasons that these places did so badly in the first place is because they got subjected to stalinist-style population transfers by rulers such as Andrew Jackson, and in addition they had to contend with numerous incursions into their lands by soldiers and state-sponsored militias in addition to forcible land seizures and invasion[/QUOTE] I don't know how you saw it run but in Canada it wasn't for those reasons.

[QUOTE=GunFox;51135991]Except reservations were the worst thing to happen to mainland native Americans. They are bastions of poverty and crime. They force generation after generation of Native American children to grow up in an environment that doesn't adequately prepare them to work with the rest of the country. as a result of their status, they are not granted constitutional protections. We allow these little dictatorships to exist in the interest of protecting them, but the reality is that it does nothing of the sort. We are all so afraid of integration because of the fucking Indian boarding schools, but the reality is that integration was the only solution from the beginning.[/QUOTE] Oh sure, reservations were the worst thing that ever happened to them. Not the invaders that forced them to live there. What you are advocating is not "integration", it's cultural destruction and forced assimilation. "Integration" would be European immigrants merging cultures and peoples with the Native population. Destruction and assimilation are when the European immigrants kill or force the them away until they have nothing but a very small piece of land that we told them they could have, then continue with an policy of kidnapping and reeducation in an attempt to destroy them anyway. And then we blame them for having a broken and poverty ridden culture, because it surely wasn't due to our centuries of oppression.

[QUOTE=SIRIUS;51125809]I like how the borderline racism is coupled with spelling errors[/QUOTE] That's not racist brudda. [editline]1st October 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51137337]Oh sure, reservations were the worst thing that ever happened to them. Not the invaders that forced them to live there. What you are advocating is not "integration", it's cultural destruction and forced assimilation. "Integration" would be European immigrants merging cultures and peoples with the Native population. Destruction and assimilation are when the European immigrants kill or force the them away until they have nothing but a very small piece of land that we told them they could have, then continue with an policy of kidnapping and reeducation in an attempt to destroy them anyway. And then we blame them for having a broken and poverty ridden culture, because it surely wasn't due to our centuries of oppression.[/QUOTE] Too late for what-ifs buddy, he's right about reservations. As they are still happening and will perpetuate this type of growth until something is done if ever.

[QUOTE=Teratoma;51139400]Too late for what-ifs buddy[/QUOTE] "What-ifs"? There is no "what if", that's what actually happened. I'm surprised by how much denial there is around here regarding the treatment of native peoples.