tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508436481250154585.post4531624847761552557..comments2023-07-03T10:12:07.894-04:00Comments on Native Pride: What is a Saint Regis Indian?John Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258945528213164797noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508436481250154585.post-76324865172222049702013-08-23T17:43:35.420-04:002013-08-23T17:43:35.420-04:00As a follow up to this post, the case filing was a...As a follow up to this post, the case filing was a dismal failure. The Saint Regis Indians stipulated all these ridiculous positions to lay a foundation to nowhere. Not one part of their argument held.John Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258945528213164797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508436481250154585.post-33241485039738860232010-01-04T03:49:06.022-05:002010-01-04T03:49:06.022-05:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508436481250154585.post-24171711440681253062009-04-19T00:07:00.000-04:002009-04-19T00:07:00.000-04:00There is an on going debate regarding respect vers...There is an on going debate regarding respect versus reconciliation. The reconciliation I speak of is of the nature by which everything fits, nice and orderly. When records are reconciled, everything is accounted for and everything makes sense under a specific standand. <br /><br />The outside governments are constantly trying to reconcile our existence. We don't easily fit into the boxes they have arranged for everything so they rely on Congress and the courts, specifically the Supreme Court, to create or invent new ways of fitting us into the "American" system under their standard. But this standard is unnatural. It is brick and mortar. It is rigid and unyielding. We in turn resist these attempts and insist time and time again that we simply don't fit in there boxes. We are different. Respect our differences and what you learn from them may surprise you. <br /><br />Tribal councils such as that of the SRMT work as hard to find those boxes to fit into as well. They do it for validation. Their history can command no respect. They owe their very existence to illegal or broken treaties or, worse yet, out right fraud. They operate like a Ponzi Scheme, taking on debt to sustain them. Much of that debt isn't just dollars, it is more like selling your soul or mortgaging your morality. What makes this Ponzi like is that there is no greater good or ends justifying the means, it is all to sustain an illusion. The illusion is that a "Tribal" government created by an outside state is a government at all, let alone a sovereign government of a sovereign people.John Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258945528213164797noreply@blogger.com