scoobydoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 stupid people post memes on facebook on the lines share this post about following Australias strict immigration policy (that we should follw--another debate for another day), usually posted by really stupid brits unaware of history and the irony of their stupidity posting such nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 no doubt south africa was bad, but australia was no better and didn't get the same negative press/sanctions etc, why??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydoo Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 the Aboriginals of the united states at least had treaty's to protect pockets of land!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Have a snack boy and chill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 the Aboriginals of the united states at least had treaty's to protect pockets of land!! ...and the treaty meant nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 They did all right in the Southwest. But some of the eastern tribes almost got wiped out by European diseases. Hadn't been for that, they might have been able to hold on much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Charles Curtis, vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933, was a mixed race member of the Kaw nation. He learned to speak Kansa, the language of the Kaws, when he was a child growing up on Kaw reservation. (Ironically, that language now has almost died out as a living language.) As a young man, Curtis was nicknamed "Injun Charlie." I imagine that Australia has yet to have an aboriginal in such a high position. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthru69 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Yes they may of had treaties, but read about the trail of tears.. where the native american indians were forced to walk from south Fl. all the way to western Ok.. Many people lost their lives and the new american white guys could of cared less. Go travel through some of the reservation lands here in the western U.S. Alot of the towns are filled with trash along the road ways and the homes built for them are almost trashed.. The jobless rate is very high on the reservation land also. North Dakota did have a good run with the oil field boom and some of the gas and oil reserves sitting on tribal lands.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Himmaparn Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 the Aboriginals of the united states at least had treaty's to protect pockets of land!! The treaties were largely ignored by the government but now the payback comes in the form of casinos here in California... The tribes are treated as sovereign nations by the Feds and therefore have no requirement to follow local zoning laws, so there's nothing the local municipalities can do to stop or control any new developments backed by officially recognized tribal councils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 I had a friend who was 1/4th Cherokee and on the tribal rolls who looked into opening a casino. He didn't do it, but it was tempting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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