Plowboy221
Monday, June 22, 2020 9:43:33 PM
Hey while everyone is on there high horse about racism, take a look at the slums out west that are Indian reservations. I see these first hand when I’m out in Wyoming and such, it truly is depressing that someone has to live this way.
delta1
Monday, June 22, 2020 10:07:39 PM
true, our history of oppression and exploitation of the indigenous people is shameful...

just finished the book :

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Gann

tells the story of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma in the 1920's...oil was discovered and the tribe became some of the wealthiest people on earth, until big oil companies and assorted white thieves moved in to "help them"...more than 20 Osage members who owned headrights to the wells were shot, poisoned or otherwise murdered

Mcdanielsamuel
Monday, June 22, 2020 10:23:51 PM
Pawhuska, OK is a wonderful little town and in the heart of Osage Nation. The Osage are also one of few of the only tribe that actually owns there land outright. I listened to an Osage historian talk of how the Osage would run out of gas in their new Cadillac, assume that it was broken, leave it on the side of the road and buy a new one. While other white folks would swindle them by taking the old car and selling a new one. That put how wealthy they were into perspective and how much they were getting robbed.
delta1
Monday, June 22, 2020 10:40:51 PM
The reign of terror was ended when an honest and smart former Texas Ranger was assigned by J.Edgar, head of the new FBI, to investigate the killings. He took down the mastermind of the scheme to kill and swindle the Osage, the town's most influential citizen, who bought out local lawmen and private investigators who were hired by the Indians.
Mr. Jones
Monday, June 22, 2020 10:53:11 PM
Delta and Plowboy....

When I declare ...and I make declarations about the

FBI BEING THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION

ON THE EARTH..

eVERYoNE HERE LAuGHS AT ME...

IT has been going on since the inception of the FBI...

NOW...TO GIVE THEM PROPS...do some of them really protect us and kill the bad guys?

Hell yes...but they have several/ multiple divisions within the FBI...SOME GOOD ...SOME W.O.R.S.E. THAN CRIMINALS..

WORSE THAN MAFIA...WORSE THAN anything you as a

SHEEPLE U.S. CITIZEN CAN FATHOM...

I HAVE WITNESSED AND LIVED THROUGH THEIR WRATH...

I TRUST NO ONE IN THE FBI...

ESPECIALLY THE SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE GROUP DIVISION

which is filled with criminals, sociopaths and pyscopaths...

All with carte blanche badges and guns with total IMmUniTY to break any and all federal laws...and to outright steal anything they can lay their sick mits onto...

HockeyDad
Monday, June 22, 2020 11:00:42 PM

The reign of terror was ended when an honest and smart former Texas Ranger was assigned by J.Edgar, head of the new FBI, to investigate the killings. He took down the mastermind of the scheme to kill and swindle the Osage, the town's most influential citizen, who bought out local lawmen and private investigators who were hired by the Indians.

delta1 wrote:

Walker, Texas Ranger

frankj1
Monday, June 22, 2020 11:36:06 PM

true, our history of oppression and exploitation of the indigenous people is shameful...

just finished the book :

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Gann

tells the story of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma in the 1920's...oil was discovered and the tribe became some of the wealthiest people on earth, until big oil companies and assorted white thieves moved in to "help them"...more than 20 Osage members who owned headrights to the wells were shot, poisoned or otherwise murdered

delta1 wrote:

great book

teedubbya
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:15:37 AM
I work with American Indians and Alaska Natives nationally trying to improve their quality of health care. Covid is hitting them hard. We put together a daily count of cases, hospitalizations, deaths, etc compared to resources in the area such as ventilators and number of hospital beds and risk factors for the area. One of their risk factors is lack of running water. Try washing your hands without it.

ZRX1200
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:22:44 AM
How do you socially distance in a tepee?
Krazeehorse
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:04:27 AM
I am only assuming here because I don't have first hand knowledge but they are living that way because they WANT to live that way. The Amish seem to do a good job of maintaining a lifestyle rooted in the past yet very capably merging it with our English world. Perhaps native Americans can learn from them.....if they want to.
tonygraz
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:04:47 AM
Build a bigger tepee.
rfenst
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:31:51 AM

I am only assuming here because I don't have first hand knowledge but they are living that way because they WANT to live that way. The Amish seem to do a good job of maintaining a lifestyle rooted in the past yet very capably merging it with our English world. Perhaps native Americans can learn from them.....if they want to.

Krazeehorse wrote:

I guarantee you they don't want to live the way they do. They just want to live in groups and the way they did before white people started messing up their world, taking their land and then putting them on reservations.

Krazeehorse
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3:23:38 PM
I said I don't know. So please tell me what it is specifically being done that prevents them from doing that?
teedubbya
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:00:50 PM
There are some free cultural competency courses online at Tulane university if you’d like to really learn more.
Krazeehorse
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:38:52 PM
I can but I guess I thought someone could just give me the cliffs notes. What does "they want to live in groups" mean? And what is preventing them from doing that?
cacman
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:11:56 PM
It's the Native American's fault for living on our land before we got here. [sarcasm]
gummy jones
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:18:03 PM
If only we would have just annihilated them like other peoples did when settling land we wouldn't have this problem

But then we wouldn't have as many sweet casinos

Life is full of tricky situations

Adulting is hard

teedubbya
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:25:21 PM
Should have done the same with the confederacy.
gummy jones
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:47:10 PM
Other nations would have
delta1
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:47:39 PM
😱

you guys!!! now we got no chance of USNGunner coming back!!!

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