What Reynolds Writes |
What He Means |
but nowadays, with the basest indignities on offer to every household with an Internet connection | Why aren't more people logging on to Indiancountry.com? |
scars of a warrior would have become him more | An Indian Reference and it only took 5 paragraphs! Indians love my colorful phrases. |
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act | Peyote for Prisoners! |
Indian Child Welfare Act | Grandmas legally have to take care of Grandbabies |
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 | Now tribal members can blame their tribes for not providing assistance instead of the federal government. |
Many Indians of the time considered it virtually a liberation document | Tribal Leaders got cash directly from the government to do as they pleased. |
These were Indian ideals before Republicans ever recognized them as cogenial | Indians follow Republican principles. |
They would circulate funding streams through their own communities, instead of supporting the BIA’s salaried legions.
| Finally, Tribal leaders can pay their mistresses legally with government money. |
but the role of the entrenched bureaucracies was a live issue in the late 1970s. | Look at me jive-talking by using hip words like "live." This one's for the kids! |
it has come to seem that his may have been the last such opportunity | The Federal Government gave up on Indians in the late 70s. |