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    [–]ReeferMadness 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    As I understand it they have all the same rights as every other American. On top of that they have reservations on which they have more rights than other Americans. Broken thirties are not civil rights violations, they are broken treaties.

    The reservations they have are ghettos. They have free reign to build anything they want and there are no factories or farms or universities. All they build are casinos. Easy money which the elders keep for themselves and squander. More land would not make any difference to Native peoples.

    That doesn't justify breaking treaties. But any claim that the broken treaties are responsible for the poverty of Native Americans is just leftist bullshit. At the end of the day Natives leave the reservation to go find work. If the reservations were any bigger they would have to travel further.

    No one is fighting for civil rights. They are fighting for more welfare, more affirmative action, more anti white propaganda. Anyone who believes the propaganda is brainwashed.

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      [–]Trolley 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Perhaps you misspoke - no one has a right to land in America. The Declaration of Independence says that we are endowed by our Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It, however, is not a legally binding document on the American government. What is a legally binding document on the American government is the Constitution. That document's fifth and fourteenth amendments says that we have rights to life, liberty, and property that cannot be denied us without due process. Those amendments prohibit both state and federal governments from depriving a person in the United States of life, liberty, or property without following their own laws (procedural due process), and prevent state and federal governments from violating fundamental human rights as recognized by the Supreme Court even if they pass a law allowing them to do so (substantive due process).

      But nothing in the Constitution says anything about a civil right to land.