Just a short note.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Today is the 135th anniversary of the day Crazy Horse learned about America™.

Just saying.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

And in only 13.5 short decades, we have elevated the Red Man from his lowly natural state of nomadic savage to his currently respected and feared status as the guy who sells the cheapest cigarettes and runs casinos outside of Vegas.

I sure hope they're grateful.







[[ this has been sarcasm. Every time I'm feeling especially Ameriproud™, I just think about what happened to the Native Americans, and how they still live on "Reservations," a century and a half after we started wiping them out in the greatest successful genocide in Human history. That seems to clear up any lingering confusion about what a great country this is. ]]

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Today is the 135th anniversary of the day Crazy Horse learned about America™.

Just saying.

Yes. Pic sums things up perfectly. The artist only lived to about forty five, BTW. Link doesn't say how he died.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Today is the 135th anniversary of the day Crazy Horse learned about America™.

Just saying.

Yes. Pic sums things up perfectly. The artist only lived to about forty five, BTW. Link doesn't say how he died.

That's about the average life expectancy of an American indian male.

[Verbal Mike]

Today still?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Today still?

Eh, I think it's higher now, with a significant leap within our lifetime. But still shitty. And American indian males are still more likely to die of murder than any other demographic.

[LMNO]

That's because they are a savage and backwards people, who should never have come to this country in the first place.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Today still?

Eh, I think it's higher now, with a significant leap within our lifetime. But still shitty. And American indian males are still more likely to die of murder than any other demographic.

And replacing alcoholism with meth-addiction isn't really helping matters on that front. I've got a couple of friends with res privileges who avoid them now as a result of some nasty close calls.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Today still?

Eh, I think it's higher now, with a significant leap within our lifetime. But still shitty. And American indian males are still more likely to die of murder than any other demographic.

And replacing alcoholism with meth-addiction isn't really helping matters on that front. I've got a couple of friends with res privileges who avoid them now as a result of some nasty close calls.

Meth is hardly exclusive to Native Americans...But given the whole concept of a "reservation" as "built-in mayhem", I can't imagine how bad it would get with some of the poorer tribes.

[AFK]

From first-hand knowledge I can report that "really bad" doesn't even scratch the surface.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Today still?

Eh, I think it's higher now, with a significant leap within our lifetime. But still shitty. And American indian males are still more likely to die of murder than any other demographic.

And replacing alcoholism with meth-addiction isn't really helping matters on that front. I've got a couple of friends with res privileges who avoid them now as a result of some nasty close calls.

Meth is hardly exclusive to Native Americans...But given the whole concept of a "reservation" as "built-in mayhem", I can't imagine how bad it would get with some of the poorer tribes.

We live in the state that brings you "Faces of Meth" and also Seaside. In my psych class this term, one of the exercises was stereotypes, and we were each assigned a race/ethnicity that we were not, and then had to get up in front of the class and blurt out all the stereotypes you could think of. I was enlightened and surprised by many of them (Many Hispanics evidently have a stereotype of white people eating a lot of pizza) but the one I wasn't surprised by was the association between white people and methheads.

But yeah, some of the reservations, especially the really poor coastal ones, can be baaaaad.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Crappy commodity food and trying to fill up the family with stuff like frybread, don't forget that one.

[Suu]

As far as I know about the Connecticut tribes (Mohegan and Pequot) they do pretty good for themselves because they each have their own huge resort casinos.

The Narragansetts in RI, on the other hand...always get the shit end of the stick. They shouldn't have eaten the Pilgrims.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

As far as I know about the Connecticut tribes (Mohegan and Pequot) they do pretty good for themselves because they each have their own huge resort casinos.

The Narragansetts in RI, on the other hand...always get the shit end of the stick. They shouldn't have eaten the Pilgrims.

They should have eaten them faster.

[East Coast Hustle]

Today still?

Eh, I think it's higher now, with a significant leap within our lifetime. But still shitty. And American indian males are still more likely to die of murder than any other demographic.

And replacing alcoholism with meth-addiction isn't really helping matters on that front. I've got a couple of friends with res privileges who avoid them now as a result of some nasty close calls.

Meth is hardly exclusive to Native Americans...But given the whole concept of a "reservation" as "built-in mayhem", I can't imagine how bad it would get with some of the poorer tribes.

Last time I was out on the Yakima Reservation I literally saw 8 year old kids riding around on their bikes....smoking meth from a lightbulb.