05-07-2015, 06:54 AM
Thanks Pog.
These issues are very intricate and the more I consider them the more I see the same old thing.
One of the things that caught my eye is when someone mentioned the Native American peoples telling the movement that reservations weren't the answer and they didn't work out for them as they had hoped.
The reason why reservations didn't work out as the Native Americans had hoped is because they implemented western culture into the reservations instead of restricting its adoption within the reservations. They could have long ago restricted their lifestyles within the reserve to their original cultural practices and traded amongst the other reservations. They didn't chose that route. Had they, they could have perhaps gained more lands if they actually needed them and could prove the need to Congress. Instead they are losing lands through abandonment and selling them off. The reservations have become nothing more than a sell out by virtue of their management guidelines.
A reservation is just that, an area set aside for reserving and preserving a people and more purposely its culture. If per say the indigenous peoples of these islands were granted reservations, they shouldn't consider them a place to move to and build their own western style homes and live out their remaining days living off the tit of the U.S. tax payers. They should consider them preserves to practice their cultural ways and living within them would constitute strict guidelines to meet those goals and all federal funding would be used directly to ensure that sanctuary meets those goals. Personally I wouldn't be for permanent residency within them and would expect everyone to at some point live outside of them and engage in helping form the future direction of this State as a member in the Union. Meanwhile the reservation would symbolize what was and be preserved to influence the State by virtue of their U.S. citizenship rights within its peoples. Life within a reservation would be ancient and very limited to outside influence with the exception of trade and agreements amongst other reservations and even with western culture business etc. while so engaged in that former cultural lifestyle. Trade type items would be limited and exclude all non essential to life modern items (modern medicine would be allowed in life threatening conditions as would emergency medical evacuation, etc). But the expectation to learn from the experience would be there and for its experience to be extracted from and implemented within the State in the sense of representation, votes and sharing those derived experience in their opinions applied outside the reservation.
A reservation used in any other capacity but that is poised for failure.
Anyhow, I see a perfect opportunity for the indigenous people to grab hold of and utilize for regaining their former cultural practices yet tempering them to facilitate within their limits. IE... no human sacrifices unless made symbolically when a native is to leave the reservation as their time to rotate back out into the Western World has come. This would also help to form appreciations for the advantages and disadvantages in the two differing cultures (western/international vs. indigenous/isolated).
A great deal could then be gained from such reservations. We don't have these benefit from reservations on the mainland today as they are just Native ideas governing a western lifestyle and for the most part becoming lost through the generations. They cant work that way, they must be govern by strict standards to preserve the culture, otherwise they are useless and only delay the inevitable dissolve into western culture and abandon.
These issues are very intricate and the more I consider them the more I see the same old thing.
One of the things that caught my eye is when someone mentioned the Native American peoples telling the movement that reservations weren't the answer and they didn't work out for them as they had hoped.
The reason why reservations didn't work out as the Native Americans had hoped is because they implemented western culture into the reservations instead of restricting its adoption within the reservations. They could have long ago restricted their lifestyles within the reserve to their original cultural practices and traded amongst the other reservations. They didn't chose that route. Had they, they could have perhaps gained more lands if they actually needed them and could prove the need to Congress. Instead they are losing lands through abandonment and selling them off. The reservations have become nothing more than a sell out by virtue of their management guidelines.
A reservation is just that, an area set aside for reserving and preserving a people and more purposely its culture. If per say the indigenous peoples of these islands were granted reservations, they shouldn't consider them a place to move to and build their own western style homes and live out their remaining days living off the tit of the U.S. tax payers. They should consider them preserves to practice their cultural ways and living within them would constitute strict guidelines to meet those goals and all federal funding would be used directly to ensure that sanctuary meets those goals. Personally I wouldn't be for permanent residency within them and would expect everyone to at some point live outside of them and engage in helping form the future direction of this State as a member in the Union. Meanwhile the reservation would symbolize what was and be preserved to influence the State by virtue of their U.S. citizenship rights within its peoples. Life within a reservation would be ancient and very limited to outside influence with the exception of trade and agreements amongst other reservations and even with western culture business etc. while so engaged in that former cultural lifestyle. Trade type items would be limited and exclude all non essential to life modern items (modern medicine would be allowed in life threatening conditions as would emergency medical evacuation, etc). But the expectation to learn from the experience would be there and for its experience to be extracted from and implemented within the State in the sense of representation, votes and sharing those derived experience in their opinions applied outside the reservation.
A reservation used in any other capacity but that is poised for failure.
Anyhow, I see a perfect opportunity for the indigenous people to grab hold of and utilize for regaining their former cultural practices yet tempering them to facilitate within their limits. IE... no human sacrifices unless made symbolically when a native is to leave the reservation as their time to rotate back out into the Western World has come. This would also help to form appreciations for the advantages and disadvantages in the two differing cultures (western/international vs. indigenous/isolated).
A great deal could then be gained from such reservations. We don't have these benefit from reservations on the mainland today as they are just Native ideas governing a western lifestyle and for the most part becoming lost through the generations. They cant work that way, they must be govern by strict standards to preserve the culture, otherwise they are useless and only delay the inevitable dissolve into western culture and abandon.