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Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America by minerjoe on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:43PM (#23795542)
Dude, go visit the Pine Ridge Reservation and then come back here and say "prople today are generally not limited by the historical context from which they come.

Or the Standing Rock reservation, or ...

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Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America by throwanem on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:05PM (#23795790)
Or your local BLM protest. The Brookings Institution has a good survey of the relevant history, here: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining...
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Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America by hhernandez on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:17PM (#23797229)
Why does that article not address the most dominant cause of the wealth gap, which is broken homes and blacks dropping out of school, not going to college etc?

That's an issue of personal choices more than anything else.

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Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America by hhernandez on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:15PM (#23797205)
The reservations themselves are responsible for the deplorable state of the people living on them.

If the Natives had integrated a few generations ago they would be far better off today.

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Re:Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America by minerjoe on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:34PM (#23797366)
Dude, I'm sorry for you.
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