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$\"Gravatar\"$ You could take the POV that the South did actually get their own states as one great big reservation.
Michael Maier | Homepage | 07.14.09 - 10:01 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Yeah, but we can't run casinos.
Josh | 07.14.09 - 10:18 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ As little independence from the fedgov as Indians have, I would agree with the cowboy in that the southern states have less.
Mikesbo | 07.14.09 - 10:31 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Your Jeb has an inquisitive mind; the wheels are always turning with him, huh?

I remember being a child, and never do I recall one so young ask such questions. Is he really that polite?

But then, you know, I'm public schooled so I expect that makes a big difference there in terms of my experience in my day.

Good story about the Cavalry. I must admit. I thought the cowboys were fighting with the Indians, too. What we are usually taught is that as people migrated West, it created pressure between the colonizers and the Indian tribes for land and resources.

Fascinating. We can always imagine how it'd turn out if things turned out the way it should have, but this world is an evil place.
SarahtheCanucki | 07.14.09 - 10:35 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Jeb talks like an adult. His vocabulary has been described as \"intimidating\" by adults that are regularly around him.

words like \"antagonize\" come out of his mouth conversationally... and the other day he corrected my housekeeper on the differences between rhyme and alliteration.
Nate | Homepage | 07.14.09 - 10:48 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Up here in Canuckistan, the Native American Inuits have their own freakin' territory. A vast territory called Nunavut. It was created in 1999 as a result of some old Land Claims issue between the Inuit people up there and the rest of Canada.

Features of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement: - a long list of stuff but this is the big one:

The inclusion of a political accord that provides for the establishment of the new Territory of Nunavut and through this a form of self-government for the Nunavut Inuit.

another site:

The first object of concern was the domination of Inuit by white men and white man’s government. But soon another followed, and one about which no Inuit could be the least confused: the cavalier use of the land and waters of “our land,”nunavut in the Inuit language, by industrial firms seeking new energy and mineral sources. The living species and natural habitat which had always sustained Inuit were now under threat themselves. The Indians of western and northern Canada had signed treaties many years earlier over these same issues, but the outcome had not been encouraging. Now in Alaska the Inuit, Dene, Haida, Tlingit and Aleuts, an Inuit related people, were trying a new model, an apparently gigantic land claims settlement. The billion dollars involved made it sound breathtaking, and there is little doubt that it showed both aboriginal Canadians and their governments that the unthinkable—a renegotiation of European settlement of America— was indeed thinkable.

Can you imagine it being thinkable for America to \"renegotiate\" with y'all southrons?
SarahtheCanucki | 07.14.09 - 10:54 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I'm not claiming that there was any sort of negotiation or agreement in the time before or anything, but just the idea that they would even consider the idea of letting go a little bit of control.

I guess that can apply to all the states, though.
SarahtheCanucki | 07.14.09 - 11:01 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ That is awesome.

It's really too bad that most people don't address kids seriously when asked serious questions.
Spacebunny | 07.15.09 - 2:36 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Lucky Jeb. My nephew has a mother that ragged on me for trying to explain \"silver\" US coins aren't silver at all.
Michael Maier | Homepage | 07.15.09 - 12:36 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Spacebunny, that's because most people don't know the answers.

Nate, your housekeeper isn't by chance Sonia Sotomayor, is she? Still reading children's books, I see...
Ben-El | 07.15.09 - 2:21 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ \"His vocabulary has been described as \"intimidating\" by adults that are regularly around him.\"

Intimidating. That's an odd word to use to describe a child's vocabulary. Then again, Jeb hasn't polluted the soles of his feet by setting foot in a public school, so I'm not surprised.
David II | 07.15.09 - 4:51 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Nate, your housekeeper isn't by chance Sonia Sotomayor, is she?

She's not hot enough.
Josh | 07.15.09 - 7:18 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Nates housekeeper is suprisingly hot.
WellDigger | 07.16.09 - 1:38 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Of course.
SarahtheCanucki | 07.17.09 - 12:11 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I tip pretty waitresses better than ugly ones. Why would it suprise anyone that I'd have a hot housekeeper? Julie and I both enjoy fine scenery.
Nate | Homepage | 07.17.09 - 6:08 pm | #

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