Jack Abramoff Quotes
I’ve got to go meet with the Choctaw Tribal Council monkeys.
Abramoff was taking millions from the Choctaw Indians Tribe for his ‘services’ to get federal legislation so that they would not have to pay state taxes on their gambling profits. He also had other Indian tribes as clients. Privately he had no respect for the Indians and cheated them while they were trying to get unfair special treatment from the Republican controlled Congress and administration. Abramoff went to jail along with others in one of the biggest political scandals in modern America.
Jack Abramoff, Political Lobbyist, E-mail to a colleague
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This law allowed the President to forcibly move entire tribes from their native lands to sparsely settled land in the West. Oklahoma became knows as Indian Territory as so many Indians were relocated there. The act, and this clause in particular, gave the President the authority over all Indian tribes in the nation and established the difficult if not impossible relationship between the Indian nations and the Federal government. The act—the last sentence of the quote—also ratified all treaties with the Indians and pronounced them inviolate. That was not to be.
See also {612020} for a contemporary description of the Slavs
Carson was one of the few Indian Agents who spent every penny of his budget on the Indians as opposed to himself. He was married to an Indian woman and was close enough to many Indians that he understood their resentment whenever they came into a town. They were treated terribly and while most of them were literally starving, seeing the white opulence produced resentment.
Some Mexicans have always resented the U. S. for “colonizing” Arizona and other territory that once belonged to Mexico. This quotation is very revealing concerning the reality on the ground. The Apache were on the land when the Mexicans moved in to “civilize” the territory. However, the Apache, by violence, drove the Mexicans out. At that point the Mexicans were happy to sell Arizona to the Americans and the Gadsden Purchase brought Arizona to the United States as a territory. The Americans however didn’t buy the land from the Apache, the owners before the Mexicans claimed it. Many Apaches continued the violence against whoever tried to settle in the area. Eventually, the Americans accomplished what the Mexicans did not—militarily subduing the Apache.
Curtis was part Kaw Indian brought up on the Reservation. He never hid the fact that he was part Indian and that didn’t seem to have affected his brilliant career.
Given the description and the time, the report probably was based on the Iroquois Indians in New York State. In 2000, while Native Americans had the lowest income and standard of living of any minority group in America. However, that year, in New York State, the average annual income of Indians was the same as that of whites.
The treaty was signed by a number of people including the Navajo leaders but Sherman or his staff drafted most of it. Sherman also had the title then of Indian Peace Commissioner. This clause, together with Article V, {617991} guaranteed the territorial integrity to into the 21st century. The super majority requirement was key, preventing what happened to many other Indian land holdings which were sold off by individuals or so called chief’s who were not really representing the majority of the tribe.
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Jack Allan Abramoff is an American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer, writer, and convicted felon. He was at the center of an extensive corruption investigation led by Earl Devaney that resulted in his conviction and to 21 people either pleading guilty or being found guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and congressional aides.
