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Kenneth Peel's avatar

...and the struggle is still not really over. Native American's don't actually own their own reservations. Reservation land is owned by the federal government who acts as stewards, setting the rules. If you want to understand that the economic theory of socialism simply doesn't work, you don't need to look back to the bad old days of the Soviet Union. You can stay right here at home and look at the native American reservation system.

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JT Fest's avatar

I couldn’t have said it better. Native American history deserves more than 5 minutes …

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trudee able-peterson's avatar

My Indigenous family members through my brother's marriage to a woman from the Grovant tribe from MT, have strong feelings about all of these issues. They still struggle with discrimination, and profiling in northern MN. Thanks for writing this.

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JT Fest's avatar

My pleasure.

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