I highly dislike the idea of sovereign nations within the United States and I also highly dislike the idea of race-based rights bestowed on one group of people only. Not that they didn't suffer horribly and not that the goverment did not do them wrong but that time is passed. In my opinion the hard ships continue today because they are a sovereign nation on reservations. If there was a way to fully integrate without losing cultural heritage then I would go for that. I guess what I'm trying to say is I didn't kill anyone and I didn't steal anyones land and conversly very few Native Americans born in the last 100 yrs have suffered from direct actions by US citizens so I don't feel that they should get continued special treatment for any reason. Lifting one group of people above another in terms of fundamental rights is distinctly unAmerican and goes counter to the words of the Constitution. I know what many will say they will state that the Native Americans were here first and what not and while this is true we can't deny the truth that societies conquer and assimilate other societies and have for thousands of years and will likely continue to do so. In fact in the future when our society becomes sufficiently corrupt and weakend some other group will likely conquer us (if you've studied Roman history than you will see this seems highly likely). Whether we like it or not Native Americans will never be restored to their previous place on the landscape we can only hope that the cultural resources survive because the world could learn alot from NA cultural views of ecosystems and wildlife.


huntingirl: please don't automatically assume that an opinion you do not agree with is "from the right" as conservatives have numerous views and you can't really ascribe one view to an entire side of the political spectrum.