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In Reply to: Indian Nation posted by Chris Flint on February 06, 1999 at 14:45:56:

I'd like to start out by saying that I agree with you about keeping the treaties, but I was wondering how can you say "we(our ancestors)" when we are not our ancestors? We have to ability to be greater than them, to improve and expand to places unknow to them. All that I know is that I would not like to be convicted of a crime commited by my grandparents if they were not around to take the blamee themselves. We can only hold a grudge for so long and then it becomes rediculous. It doesn't make any sense to blame the children for the parents mistake. If we wanted to do that, why aren't we placing all of the decendants of the indians at little big horn on trial? Why aren't the decendants of every settler who ever killed an indian behind bars? We as a country recognize that we can not convict the family members of a serial killer of Murder just because they are related to the lunatic. That is the one thing that I don't understand about the Indian issues. Why are we being held responcible for crimes commited by our ancestors? I know that we are not as individuals held responcible, but we as a society of immigrants who kick out the native americans are. I was also wondering if any other countries around the world are paying for broken promises like we are. Or do they just not care. We as a society have made the decition that we will up hold treaties made long ago and so we shall. We pride ourselves on our honesty(only over a hundred years too late) and we should stand by our promises.

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