Tribal land is not Federal or State land. The State has no business interfering with what the tribes do on their own land – their right, promised in the treaties. The treaty promises were a pitiful payment forced on them at gunpoint, for giving up their country.
The State and non-tribal residents should realize they are lucky to get a piece of the casino-revenue pie at all, and should be ashamed for taking it.
I have said it before, to tribal leaders, and I will say it again: The tribes should tell the State to take a hike and keep its sticky fingers off their land and their revenues. What the tribes can get is only right for them to keep, considering the appalling treatment they have received by the Federal and State governments, and by coveting neighbors.
Guinda Reeves
Much of this article originally appeared in The Verde Independent of Cottonwood, Arizona but additional material has been added by Ms Reeves for the U.N. OBSERVER & International Report.
The State and non-tribal residents should realize they are lucky to get a piece of the casino-revenue pie at all, and should be ashamed for taking it.
I have said it before, to tribal leaders, and I will say it again: The tribes should tell the State to take a hike and keep its sticky fingers off their land and their revenues. What the tribes can get is only right for them to keep, considering the appalling treatment they have received by the Federal and State governments, and by coveting neighbors.
Guinda Reeves
Much of this article originally appeared in The Verde Independent of Cottonwood, Arizona but additional material has been added by Ms Reeves for the U.N. OBSERVER & International Report.