This is historically and ideologically completely false. Treaty provisions are not hand-outs, but the settlements of WAR. To ignore this is to deny the validity of blood.

But, in political talk, Indians have been, by Democrats, trained to think wrongly of themselves.

Indians want to be Indian. This is the bottom line. That means separateness. That means preservation of culture, language, land, and bloodlines. (You know, the very things AMERICA needs to think about if America intends to stay America. Doesn’t seem to be the trend these days.)

Again, many (if not most) Conservatives are simply totally ignorant and moreover hypocritical when it comes to their perspective of Indians. That’s all. They need to be educated. I’m not saying the great white race isn’t the great white race. I’m saying that they need to accept certain realities of history–which their fathers created, and they need to honor those realities, not try to erase them.

Indians can’t do anything in Congress. There have been a few thin bloods and quasi-Indian types, but, they were elected to represent STATES. There is no Indian in Congress representing Indians. That is an impossibility, until such a seat is created. I would push for that, indeed.

What I don’t want is an Indian image that is anti-America. That is history, and is most unproductive now. It is cooperative coexistence that is needed now. And ONLY with the Indian, not with any other group. America owes nothing to any other “group.” Indians are NOT a minority. That is superficial illusion. That applies to all others. Indians are nations, the original peoples of this land. The rest are foreigners, taking advantage.

David, are Indians like Obama, blaming everything on others and taking no responsibility for themselves? That is how it seems. Those like yourself, with a concerted set of principles and purpose, ARE in a major minority, are they not? What is it Indians want? If Indians want treaties to be honored, why do they not have people running for office to see that happens? There is something very … circular in all this.

I’m curious if you have ever tried to contact any of the conservative players out there via phone call (which is a million to one shot, I know), or email, or letter, hand written if necessary. Open some eyes. But it is off point to ask conservative talk show people to stand up for what they see as an entire voting block devoted to liberals and liberal policy. It isn’t logical to expect these people to entertain Indians any more than ACORN. To them it is all the same thing, right or wrong in perspective.

And yes, he’s had some bad associations!

Are you talking about the same Russell Means that founded and co-lead The International Confederation of Autonomous AIM with Ward Churchill and based in Denver?

Most Indians don’t know what they’re talking about, politically. Or so it should seem to you. We have to talk with whomever is willing to talk. Conservatives normally are not willing. Liberal Dems, for whatever dissembling reasons, are.

But since you mention South Dakota, I remind you that Russell Means campaigned for John Thune, who in fact ousted Tom Daschel.

Indians are looking for something that works. So for, all we’ve gotten is casinos–due to liberal crooked politicians, syndicate bosses, land developers–and these are all white people. You want to make Indians responsible for white people’s behavior??

You are saying that our military men and women are going about unarmed? Surely we have finally gone over that abyss into insanity! I don’t even take off my sidearm in my own house unless I am taking a bath! And then, it is inches from my hand. And why do I have to live like this? Because of liberal lemmings who have turned our nation over to be plundered and destroyed by evil-doers.