PROMISES, PROMISES: For many American Indians, free health care...

BeccaChase wrote:

<quoted text>Yes it was the Navajo, and it killed the Japanese that they could not break it.

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OhWellShitHappens wrote:

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“Them” being any minorities. I thought I made that clear. Obviously not. Anyway, I’ve seen plenty of minorities get scholarship funding/jobs only to stand constantly with their hand out expecting more only to lose what they could’ve made of the situation.

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Arrogance of Power wrote:

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EVERY US army in WWII had its own set of codetalkers. Only the Marines had Navajo.
Patton's codetalkers were Chickasaw natives.
The Japanese DID break part of it. They knew it was Navajo and actually had several Japanese who could understand it(they had lived in the SW USA). However, even if you knew Navajo, they had code words for all sorts of things so it didn't help.

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BeccaChase wrote:

<quoted text>I've seen plenty of white kids squander what they had and ask for handouts too, but it doesn't change the history of a people that didn't have much of a chance in the first place due to extermination on a massive level. I understand what you're saying, I just don't agree as it pertains to this particular minority.

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mike wrote:

I doubt very seriously that whomever signed this treaty expected we would pay billions of dollars every year for Indian Health Care (2010 budget in excess of 4 billion). You say "we" took their land? I didn't take their land, I have paid for every piece of land I have ever owned and I am also paying for Indian Health Care. This treaty was signed in 1787, it is time to put it to bed and let the Indians pay for their own health care, especially the tribes who own casinos. We have all had to accept changes, I was told when I started my job 30 years ago my health care would carry into retirement, not the case any longer. The Unions expected the same thing but they are taking less. Maybe the Indians got the shaft 222 years ago, but it really has nothing to do with us today, the land has been paid for a hundred times over in the past two hundred years. Time for the Indians to go to work and pay their health care like the rest of us.
Congress, do your duty and say enough is enough, if we are tied to this contract, then provide them with the same level of health care that was available when they signed the contract. I for one am tired of my tax money paying for something that happened 222 years ago.
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dari wrote:

I have a real hard time with this story. Because all of it is true. We took this land from the indians by force and broke treaty after treaty with them. Then we promised to take care of them with reservations and health care. Looks like we broke another promise. This just shouldn't be. Congress do your duty and give them health care, real health care.

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jerk wrote:

<quoted text>For HOW long do we have to pay for what the White Man did? Who did the Indians take the land from?

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todd wrote:

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The Indians were here first, read your history books

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todd wrote:

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Also read the book "Trail of tears".. You will understand so much more about the Indians.

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todd wrote:

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The Indians were here first, read your history books

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Jack wrote:

How about the Treaty giving the Black Hills to the Native Americans? Some white man trespassed and found gold. They were booted from their land. Native Americans revered the land. Not rape and exploited it. What did the brave General Custer do, sneak into their camps at night and kill men women and children. After being defeated at Little Big Horn the Seventh Calvary flag was captured, while migrating though the Pine Ridge Reservation, the new Seventh Calvary ambushed these Native Americans which at that point consisted of only, women, children, old men and women. Only one survived and that was a baby because her mother fell on her shielding her from bullets. The Col. in charge took the child into his home, but was never treated the same as his own children. When this girl died she was taken back to Pine Ridge and buried with the rest of the ambushed Native Americans. Check your history, this is true. To this day, as Americans when we want something we take it. If we think there is injustice we fight for it. Lets start fighting for something worth while. Not other peoples civil wars and their freedoms. How about the Billions of dollars we send to Mexico and other countries to curb their hunger and provide medical care. LETS START AT HOME!!!!!!!!!!

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One Horn Bull wrote:

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How about starting on the east coast where there was a Indian Nation recognized by the goverment upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. President Jackson ignored the law and the court and the Trail of Tears began to Okla.
That was a far greater theft.