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Video Transcript
And hello everyone I'm alicia crowds here once again at the crater you H with another great facebook live for you this week During our presenter of this week's video nail me riley she's a New York post columnist and author of the new book the new trail of tears and her new video is up on preview dot com or so you can watch it here on facebook as well American Indians are still getting a Deal and has over 600000 views since its release yesterday naomi thanks so much for being with us today thanks for having me we really appreciate it I found your video incredibly fascinating I'm from the land of the Red people which I guess is politically incorrect to say Oklahoma so I grew up with a lot of native Americans have native Americans in my family I'm native American heritage and I think this is an issue that a lot of people are kind of aware of but not really educated about so I love this video that you brought us for Praying for you this week thanks for doing that but most people seem that the government's history of hurting American enhance was back during the time of Andrew Jackson you know trail of tears and that we've made things right by giving them reservations and all these government benefits Billions of dollars of which you talk about it you video this week but did you find what you find in the process I guess of writing your book the new trail of tears have we really help them and benefit them in anyway well I think you're right that most Americans are really not Educated about these issues beyond what we learn in second or third grade about American Indian policy is a hundred or a hundred and 50 years ago um in fact of course as everybody may recall the reservations were a way of pushing the Indians out of the way um so that we Could pursue Western expansion um but somehow the reservations now have more into a policy that we somehow view is protective of their interest that these are reservations where White people can't destroy their land in fact The reservations are a purely paternalistic policy where by we restrict the rights of American Indians particularly their economic rights and their property rights um what a reservation means is that the land is held in trust by the federal government Um as I say in the video and in the book the only other people that we hold things and trust for legally our children and the mentally and confident so I think that tells you just about where we are in terms of our views of American Indians today and our policies um what that Means in a fact that we hold this landed trust it means that American Indians cannot buy it or sell it or use it as capital in order to make investments um they simply don't have the same kind of property rights and economic freedoms that other Americans You so how big of a problem for American Indians of the names of the sports teams that we always hear about in the news uh the Washington redskins or chief law who mascot for the Cleveland Indians so um as I talk about A lot in the book the indicators the social and economic indicators for American Indians are pretty horrendous um they are the most impoverished group in the country um they have higher rates of child abuse of domestic The views of alcoholism of suicide um of violence even gang violence than any other racial group in the country um and a lot of this really does them from the economic problems that they have If um unfortunately I think a lot of our conversations about native Americans this country have really focused on uh these debates over political correctness whether they be um you know team names or other you know people are offended by Columbus day or you know our Thanksgiving in some cases um but honestly you know these are not the issues that are really hurting American Indians in these communities today I mean if if you had you know if you have the highest Suicide rate of any racial group in the country you know you would not be sitting around worrying about what the Washington you know jc residents call their football team uh so the federal government as your video points out spends billions of dollars and has thousands of Employees a year focus on serving our they're supposed to be serving American Indians do you think that it's helping make their lives any better I think it's really making their lives a lot worst and um a lot of American Indians will tell you this I mean I went to a bunch of reservations for this book and I interviewed a lot of American Indians on the ground and none of them are particularly happy with the way they are treated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for instance as I say the governing Affairs and the Bureau of Indian edge And have nine thousand employees among them um and that's about one employee for every hundred and 10 residence on the reservation and they're really micromanage like children in some ways I mean the the I talked to one American any just to give you an example I was on the northern cheyenne reservation and I spoke to a man who basically wanted to buy a very small piece of land to grace so his cattle on um and he wanted to purchase it from His neighbor who's another American Indian and they have spoken and the two of them had agreed on the price for this small parcel of land again just a few acres and then um Bureau of Indian Affairs representative came in and said no you can't do that because we don't see That that's fair market value for the land now of course in any other you know real world situation yeah look at value is what people pay for the link at it's not some made up number in Washington dc by some At but on Indian reservations that's what it is and the the particularly cruel irony of the situation is that this number has been made up because of your opinion Affairs had recently have a land appraised for a kind of buy back program they were doing And they specifically told the appraiser to make the appraisal high so its quote not to screw over the india's wow and it screwed over at least two and that's another comes in the House every time you so can you explain gives you you the land analogy there are Story that you just shared can you explain the idea of land trusts and how American Indians really don't have total property rights that they own land on the reservation right so this is um there's a you know he was a kind of same hernando desoto and heat He referred to this is dead capital um you know if a lot of Americans obviously you know they wanna purchase a House they go to a Bank and they get a mortgage and if they for if they don't pay their mortgage payments the Bank can foreclose Is on the House and the peace of land that they try to buy but if American Indian goes to Bank they can get the same deal because the Bank could never for close on the property because of Bank cannot own reservation land and this affects people not only in terms Mortgages and by the way the housing situation these reservations is perfectly horrendous I mean you have people squeezing you know 15 people into a trailer home because they can't afford a mortgage and you have these bask hundreds of thousands of empty Acres and you have a housing shortage like it's Manhattan um but but more than that more one of the bigger problems though is that American Indians also can't use that land then in order to start a small business um a lot of Americans when they were To start a business they use the collateral from their homes um in order to to borrow against in order to start up a business but American Indians again they don't have access to that even though all the all other Americans do so do believe that the reservation system Was maybe set up with good intentions has it seems no damn right that's the amazing thing the reservation system was set up with terrible intentions it was set up with the intention of kind of warehousing these people but somehow we have sort of turned it into This thing where we are suggesting that now it has good intentions that now we're using it to protect them but in fact we're not protecting them and it goes by the way goes far beyond economics not only are we denying them economic rates but as I talk about in What we are denying them a decent education they have a terrible healthcare system and all of this is on the federal government we have no one to blame but the people in Washington we are even denying them proper constitutional protection American Indians on reservations are victims of crimes at just astronomical rates and it is because of overlapping jurisdictions and problems with you know tribal courts giving American Indians their proper rights Um that that the rights of American Indians who are I should emphasize full American citizens are not being protected so is there anyway to turn I guess the current reservation system where the way the federal government handles the American Indian community around or just Need to cut it off completely well the most interesting trip that I took from my book was to Canada actually and they have a similar situation up there they called the Reserve system instead of reservation um but a number of the first Nations there have been pushing some Think through the Canadian parliament called the first Nations property ownership act which would basically give tribes underlying title to the land so they would be like you know the city of Boston so even if American Indians bought and sold the land among themselves Was um the land would not you know it's the ultimate title to it will be held by the tribe but not by the National government and I think one of the things that's nice about the first Nations property ownership act is that tribes can actually opt into it so you know if you're Try that believes you know you want totally communal property and you want the federal government to be protecting your land and be in charge of it all cost you know so be it you can stick with what you have but if you are you know someone who's you know native American and you really will Want your community to be able to experience the kind of economic growth that comes from having property rights you can opt into this legislation and it will be great to see something like that here as well so final question and on entirely different topic I really love your piece This weekend of culture eating about the dangers of helicopter parenting you specifically for that scenario at the playground I have a three and a half year old 96 months pregnant with kid number two and I'm sure you know like La is this mecca of helicopter parents are and then a First ones in the helicopter friends with the nannies to anyone who is wondering if you have any thoughts as to whether millennials could or should learn some valuable parenting lessons from their grandparents generation while they absolutely should you know what prompt The piece I think was and half away knowledge that she had been sliding down a slide with her one year old and new no doctor's leaving tell you that this is dangerous because if you you know uh a hundred and 50 pound person is sitting behind you no one your Slide rapid he takes over and you get a lot of broken bones like this um so it's anything in a very practical level this shows you what the dangers of helicopter parenting are but in terms of millennials I mean you know a lot of people are pointing to this kind of Give your as the reason that we're seeing this you know snowflake culture on College campuses now that these people have been hovering over a baby to an over schedule their whole lives um so yes I mean I really would like you know young people who are pair King today to kind of think like well you know what kind of kid what I like what I like a kid you know who's independent who's able to go down the slide by those um you know who is able to experience the outdoors who is able to You know find things for themselves and walk to the Park by themselves and you know I think that's one of the reasons why you know the kind of free range parenting movement is gathering steam because people are looking at this and thinking you know maybe it's not the best thing for my children to be raised in this hot House environment well thank you for that piece it was really great and everyone should be sure to watch them use the latest prager you video it's pin to our facebook page right here right for you facebook page and go to amazon and get her book the new trail of tears they only thank you so much for your time today and thanks for this great video for us thank you have a great day you head Hello Hello Hello
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