Re: Interesting Situation...
yes my previous post was pure sarcasm.<br /> but it did describe the feelings of most white america in the 1800's. I agree with most that a treaty is a treaty and cant be broken for convience or land for gold,cattle or oil. but it was done many times. sometimes with a goal sometimes not. sometimes instead of targeting a small band of rouge indians that could not abide by the treaty the entire tribe was massacered and if any survivors were placed on a different reservation. especially if the one they were on had gold or other valuable minerals. so mostly aa deal is a deal. that deal does not include fishing with modern technology while ignoring game laws. it should cover fishing with the methods at the time of the treaty with no game laws unless the tribal council and the BIA renegotiate the treaty.<br /> having worked with many indians from all over I have found,like the rest of the public, some are very industrious and hard working and others not worth the time to wake them up to shoot them. some are very honest and some will steal your hubcaps at 35MPH.<br /> jtexas<br /> I tend to agree with most your last post. we enable them to fail. its a culture thing with them. seems sometimes they are to poor to do anything but drink. its a vicious cycle and I dont know how or if we can break it.<br /> but its mostly all swept under the rug. most the indians I know are good people. I worked with a full blood cree in manteo. nice guy, big as heck about 6'5 and 340 pounds or so. however he had a serious drinking problem, was slow as molasses and rarly showed up sober and drank all day. In the mid 80's I was working with and for an Apache running fences for the AT&SF rialway outside of Rio-vista TX I was the only white. was him ,me and about 14 mexicans. his crew could run about 3 miles of fence a day. he paid 4.50 an hour,breakfast and lunch and transportation to the site. the other crew was from a govt program for minority workers. they could not make a mile a day and quite a few miles the Apache's crew had to redo. the govt crew could not be fired nor admonished by the foreman. the apache crew knew that to many cooler breaks or potty breaks and you would not be there tomorrow.
