Slightly OT: Could the Braves and Indians be next?

[packs]

Have you ever been to a reservation? You are familiar with the Trail of Tears?

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by packs

Have you ever been to a reservation? You are familiar with the Trail of Tears?

Yes, the Trail of Tears was a bad thing that happened 170 years ago. Nobody alive today is to blame for it and nobody alive today was forced from their homeland.

I have been to a Blackfoot reservation in Montana when I was young (to visit my uncle and his family,) I'm aware of the poverty in reservations near Grants, New Mexico, and I go to the racetrack/casino, Canterbury Park, in Shakopee MN, where My buddies and I stable our racehorse for the summer. There is a Sioux reservation there, and it might dispel your assumptions to learn this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lion-year.html

There's little need for any member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Tribe to work. Each adult in the 460-person American Indian nation receives more than $1million a year - for doing nothing.Aug 12, 2012

Inside the richest native American tribe in the U.S. where casino profits pay $1m a year to EVERY member

Payouts coming out of the money the Shakopee Mdewakanton Tribe makes through its highly profitable casinos

About 460 people live within the tribe

Between Mystic Lake and the Little Six Casino - tribal revenues are thought to be nearly $1.4billion

[packs]

Everyone who lives on a reservation today was forced from their homeland. I think you have a myopic view of history.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by packs

Everyone who lives on a reservation today was forced from their homeland. I think you have a myopic view of history.

That is like saying everyone alive today walked out of Africa. It's silly.

[packs]

Except it's not the same thing at all because we're talking about something concrete. You said you have an understanding of reservations. So if your family was forcibly relocated there from your actual home, and you still live there, how else do you explain your presence?

[Mark17]

My presence anywhere began the day I was born.

[byrone]

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