By Rich Kozlovich
On March 29, 2024 John Horvat II posted this article Fantasy Rules in Tribal Land Disputes, at American Thinker saying:
The news story reads like a classic land dispute between government and business interests against the claims of Indian tribes. Two massive projects are about to be started near a vast reservation in Arizona. The first is a power line that runs through an ancestral valley, and the second is a copper mine that sits atop a sacred mountain.
He went on to show the lunacy of this "sacred lands" and devotion to "old ways", and how the left rants unendingly about the need to abandon any or all projects that offend these "primitive" passions of systems that failed. He also goes on to state:
....the same liberals who would do anything to keep Christianity out of the public square and policy do everything to defend Native American spirits "inhabiting" public lands..... it does not take much to stake a claim. A few artifacts or pottery chards suffice. Based on these shallow claims, multi-billion dollar projects can grind to a halt........some left-allied tribal members claim Indian spirits occupy the mountain......
Even when these "tribes" have no territorial claim of these properties in question whatsoever, it seems all they have to do is say their ancestor's spirits " inhabit" some place or other, or they find some broken shards of pottery, and that makes it theirs.
Now, how could anyone find fault with that kind of irrefutable logic? Get real!
Not all tribe members agree with this claptrap, as they're now Christians and live modern lives, but this is just another destructive leftist battle of narratives, and their narrative must be soundly rejected.
The reality is these tribes were defeated nation long ago, and they need to accept it, get over it, and take advantage of the greatest system of governance that world has ever known, and the resulting economic powerhouse it created. If they refuse, well, this is America, and people are entitled to embrace whatever folly they choose, but that's their problem to resolve, not mine or anyone else's.
The nation needs to abandon the idea of reservations as semi-autonomous authorities, right along with all this "sacred spirit inhabited lands" claptrap. Either they're Americans or they're not, either private property is Constitutionally protected or it's not. This is just another destructive leftist effort at Balkanization and it needs to be abandoned.
Unfortunately this narrative isn't just about native Americans. There are entirely too many in America who claim minority, or some other kind of protected status, and they have demands.
Well, hey man, I get it, after all, I'm Serbian and there are only 190,000 Serbians in America, now that's a major minority. But you know, Serbians think they're Americans, and like it.
Imagine that!
Our ancestors thought being Americans, who just happened to be Serbian, was far more important than being Serbians who just happen to live in America. And guess what? They passed that mentality off to their descendants, including in my family, who fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. One was a career Navy Seal, and another was a graduate of Annapolis.
I guess Serbians just don't get it. Or, ....hey wait....., I just had a thought. Perhaps.....and this is just a shot in the dark of course....., perhaps it's the rest of the world that doesn't "get it"?
Just a thought.
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