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Indian Tribes expel members
October 27, 2007 - 10:40am
Stateside? The card I carry from the US Bureau Of Indian Affairs has my blood quantum on it. that might be a way to confirm but I don't like it, it's a sticky situation either way.
Another way to split the people. Fuck.
Just trying to keep things current. If you don't like that or wish to draw incorrect assumptions unionist, thats your tough shit, not mine
Debate the msm take on it, debate how the tribes are handling things, or interfered with, or not interfered with. Debate is good. Mere dismissal because you dont like CNN isn't. It leaves them the field doesnt it?
What conclusions do you think CNN is hoping that readers will draw?
"see, now I tole you them damn injuns was corrupt"
That's the conclusion readers will come to.
I watch CNN from time to time, not to find out what is happening, but to see how we are being "pushed", to see what consent is being manufactured, and what shock is being used to manipulate us.
CNN is a treasure trove, that way.
[ 27 October 2007: Message edited by: AMSabourin ]
I understand you don't like CNN. OK, fine. I get it. But even CNN won't publish a completely made up, from inside their own brain, story. There's some truthiness here.
So, is it "right" to expel "blacks" from the "Tribe"? Seems lots like this from Switzerland recently:
On the one hand, you have a situation like the one within the Tahltan First Nation, where the band council wants to push ahead with resource development while the elders oppose it. On the other, you have a situation like the Nisga'a treaty, which was negotiated by the elected leadership and passed by the members, and is still being opposed in court by people claiming to be traditional chiefs, who have the backing of the right-wing Canadian Constitution Foundation.
One theme I keep seeing in all of this is that once you've colonized a people for long enough, they often start doing it to themselves.
Jesus, talk about provocation - as if it isn't enough when CNN does it.
You are all expecting the Indians to be noble and all the while actively LOOK for reasons to prove that they are corrupt.
We can't win. Ever.
We'll never make you happy. You all still think you know what's right for US.
And, believe it or don't, there are also many other issues facing Native people today.
Should the topics in this corner of the public discourse be decided by CNN, or Native people?
I'm not saying it isn't an issue, or that CNN invented it from whole cloth. The lies are not in what they report. The lies are in what they don't report.
Media aside, I've always thought it as important to listen to what is not said as much as what is said.