7% Indigenous tribes land to re-opened to them by California
by rayiner
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Reservations are a profoundly evil concept. You’re basically committing to keep around pockets of the pre-industrial societies that existed before America was built. There is no timeline where the reservations in California develop governments and institutions as sophisticated and competent as the State of California. So the best case scenario for these reservations is that they’ll be perpetual dependents on the federal government. But the reality is that you’re condemning the kids born in these places to quasi third world conditions. If they had been forcibly assimilated into the United States back in the 1800s, their descendants would be like the descendants of Spanish settlers who were living in the west when the U.S. annexed that land (i.e. more or less indistinguishable in terms of material prosperity from other Americans).
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