Anti- Indian racism in New York's anti-casino movement.

[azndndude]

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413699
we will continue to fight the unending assault on our rights and sovereignty!

[ThomCat]

1. I just don't understand how the concept of a Sovereign Nation

can be that hard for some people to understand. They should have all the independence that Canada and Mexico have. They are a separete nation, though a very small one.

[Bucky]

3. I believe Indian nations vote for Congress, President, Governor...

It's not the same kind of sovereignty that Canada and Mexico have. It's the kind of sovereignty that New York, Wyoming, and Hawaii have.

[Bobbieo]

2. The battle cry of all the tribes, now.

About time, huh???

[Zorra]

4. Whites covet Buffalo Creek reservation

This was only a temporary victory, however, for the pressure of the land dealers and the expanding white population in Buffalo was too much for the Seneca reservation to resist. Ever since the end of the War of 1812 a land company called the Ogden Company had had its eyes on the Buffalo Creek reservation. In fact, as recently as 1819 Ogden land agents had come close to negotiating a deal with the Senecas that would have exchanged all of their lands in New York State for some cash and a new home in Green Bay in the Wisconsin Territory. This treaty, negotiated by Christian factions among the Senecas who were disposed to accommodating the land developers, was vetoed by the last-minute intervention of Red Jacket. Lest Red Jacket assume far too heroic proportions, it is best if the records speak for him. Indian Agent Granger, representing the government at the council, wrote:

At the meeting Red Jacket, on behalf of the Senecas, rejected the proposition to remove or contract the limits or dispose of any part of their lands. The rejection was so unqualified and so preemptory as to forbid all reasonable expectation that any good purpose would be effected by continuing the council.

Although defeated in 1819, the Ogden Company persisted. During the early 1820s they continued their overtures to the more pliable elements among the Senecas and by 1826 felt confident enough to call another council in an effort to purchase for once and for always the lands on the Buffalo Creek reservation. This time, notwithstanding the continuing efforts of Red Jacket, Ogden was successful and the Senecas agreed to sell eighty-one thousand acres of land including all of the Tonawanda, Allegheny and Buffalo Creek reservations. In exchange they received fifty-three cents per acre and a promise from the federal government that land in the Green Bay area of Wisconsin would be theirs in perpetuity.
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Red Jacket was soon vindicated, however. Several months later, in the spring of 1828, President Adams, stating that the deal with the Ogden Company was fraudulent and did not represent Seneca opinion, negated it. Now Red Jacket was reinstated.

http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/h/redj/

They just never stop, do they?