D*** Confused

While I am d*** mad, why don’t we reexamine our failed effort to create federally funded native nations within our own United States borders. We, tax payers, have supported the native population in a practically perpetual welfare state since the late 1800s. How about just dissolving reservations and assimilating the sovereign native into the rest of America, with all the same rights and privileges as the rest of us Americans. Of course, this would require the removal of special privileges for people whose ancestors were here prior to civilization coming to America. I have English, French and Choctaw native blood, but that gives me no special rights that any other American is not entitled to. Think about it, how long can we continue to be divided by arguments over water, fishing, hunting and land control rights between so called sovereign nations within our nation and the rest of our nation? Are we all Americans or should I use my passport whenever I enter or leave the sovereign reservations? If so, they should have to have a passport to leave their sovereign (countries) reservations!

Eugene Jarrell aka Cajun James

Resident of Eureka