Buffalo Roam
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The 8% of federally recognised tribes are individually recognised. ie 92% are not.
Do you want me to post the 159 Fererally recognized tribes of California?
The 8% of federally recognised tribes are individually recognised. ie 92% are not.
No but you could post the 92% of them that are not individually recognised.
This is English, guys.
What is wrong with you people?
No but you could post the 92% of them that are not individually recognised.
This is English, guys.
What is wrong with you people?
8% of what? If they are federally recognized, they have sovereignity. That includes the other 92%, as far as I can make sense of that link.SAM said:Only 8% of federally recognised tribes are individually recognised.
You are interpreting the stuff you linked to say 92% of the federally recognized tribes do not have sovereignity. I don't read that, in that link. Do you have another source, for that interpretation ?SAM said:This is English, guys.
What is wrong with you people?
And thats only from the federally recognised tribes. Then there are those that have no recognition.
Weren't so picky while kicking them around or grabbing their lands.
That was then this is now, and this is now, even then many didn't live on the reservation.
To day they still don't have to live on reservation, and with the Gaming Industry that they are the only ones allowed to run, they have really moved up, I would trade places with anyone of my Friends, as John said they get free health care, business loans, housing loans, child care, the schools are out standing, college education paid for by the Tribe.
What ever you think the Reservation is not a place of dispair, it is now a vibrant community, of hope and moving into the future, one other benefit that the Indians on the reservation have is that they pay no taxes, State or Federal, they get to keep all of the money they earn on the reservation, plus every man woman and child receives a share of the profit from the casino, every year.
Hell I I'd trade, and I am proud as a Tom at full strut that my friends have such a good life, they deserve it.
What happened after the withdrawal (and trashing) by the colonial powers was that the population boomed - increases of 3.5% per year for decades, in some places.buffalo said:And pretty much up to the with drawl of the colonial powers Africa was in good shape, there were a few problems but nothing like what happened between the late 60 and right up to todays problems,
What happened after the withdrawal (and trashing) by the colonial powers was that the population boomed - increases of 3.5% per year for decades, in some places.
The places with the fastest boom fell apart the quickest, and turned to bloodshed followed by famine.
Now the matter to ponder is this: What was keeping that from happening, under European management ? The onslaught of the colonial powers drove the population down by various means (including simply catching and selling people by the millions, as well as genocide in places) and it stayed there until after 1950. Then it boomed, just in time to meet droughts and political disasters and other problems, some of them hangovers from the Colonial management (the artificial country borders, for example).
Note that the standard of living did not begin to drop until after the boom started, so no mysterious "wealth effect" explains the stability of the low population levels. And if we look at the causes of the boom, among them we find a "tradition" of many children per woman. So apparently low birth rates did not explain the long time of little or no population growth, and low population densities. That leaves high death rates, under European management. How, Buffalo, do you think that was arranged?
I was sad that my mom's long lost sister died before she could give us information on the reservation that she used to live on. I know that I'd always give my first alliegance to Texas, but it would have been nice to just see what reservation life was like for her. She got back in contact with my mom for a few years before she ended up passing on, and towards the end was just about to send us all the documents on our past.
Google on population/africa, throw in a year like 1965 if you want to cut down the hits. Rwanda was one of the places, there were others.wizard said:Could you please supply your research for the " increases of 3.5% per year for decades" statistic, because I hardly think over population was the cause of africa`s problems.
Google on population/africa, throw in a year like 1965 if you want to cut down the hits.
The point was not that population boom "caused" Africa's problems. The point was that it didn't happen under colonial rule. The claim was made that life was good under colonial rule in Africa. But the death rate was very high, apparently. So - - -
As international attention is riveted by fears over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), an older and far more deadly disease quietly ravages Africa: malaria. Malaria kills more than a million people worldwide each year—90 percent of them in Africa; 70 percent children under the age of five.
Not at Africa's rate. And most of the other peoples and countries and continents grew during the 1800s and early 1900s, as well, unless afflicted with great disaster. (The Jews, for example, did not increase in population from 1930 to 1960). Not Africa.wizard said:Would it not be right to say just about every country in the world has grown since that point?
Not at Africa's rate. And most of the other peoples and countries and continents grew during the 1800s and early 1900s, as well, unless afflicted with great disaster. (The Jews, for example, did not increase in population from 1930 to 1960). Not Africa.
Not the parts in the malarial zones, and not the parts out of it. Not the parts in the tetse fly region, or the sleeping sickness region, and not the parts out of them.
The point is that Africa, unlike other places, before the DDT, before the antibiotics, held fairly steady at a low population density under colonial rule for centuries. Then it boomed. We know that the colonial invasions reduced the populations of every country afflicted, and that they remained low. My question is how one squares this with the hypothesis that colonial rule was beneficial overall.
Of course not. After every remnant of their culture has been sent to oblivion, the schools serve no further purpose. The damage has already been done.
The last estimate I ran into was that 75 - 90% of the Reds in North America were killed by European disease and accompanying dislocations, in the two centuries after Columbus, before the afflicted tribes ever saw a White.