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Why dont Native Americans get the attention and rights they deserve?

no one is american like them. they went from living peaceful lives, then immigrants from all over the place poured in and relocated them into subpar and disgusting living conditions, shoving pipelines through their sanctuaries, and forgetting they exist.. As a muslim, I feel that they should be getting more attention and support then muslims around the US as well as other minorities. Why hasn't this happened

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  • 4 years ago

    Even as a non-Muslim I would agree.

    I would advise ALL NATIVE AMERICAN groups, nations, family bands, whatever the call themselves to gather together and set up a joint government with a givernor, congress, and constitution along the lines of any other state, and deliberatly apply for Statehood as allowed by the Northewest Territories Act- the federal law which specifies how an area can becone a state. There is nothing in the act that says state boundaries must be contiguous. On top of which, many 'Indian and Indian governed lands are considered federal land ant not part of the land or territory of any state.

  • NiJo
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Divide and conquer, eh? Good luck.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    There is one reason on why Native Americans don't get the thanks they really and truly deserve, is because we have taken anything from them, like this massive continent we call the United States. Very Shameful of us.

  • 4 years ago

    I think it's more productive to join the nation you live in than try to divide it.

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  • 4 years ago

    They really do deserve more attention and rights.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    We gave American Indians casinos so with the billions of dollars that they are raking in each year that makes us even. We don't owe Indians anything.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I got as far as "they went from living peaceful lives". Wrong. Like most Stone Age tribes, Injuns were at war with one another constantly.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Liz Warren has embarrassed them to no end with her rain dances.

  • 4 years ago

    Theyre overlooked

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