Indian Reparations
Native American Reparations The idea that payments be made in compensation for past wrongs or injuries is Reparation. The most famous contemporary reparation example is probably the reparations paid by Germany to the Jewish people as a result of the holocaust. ... is an American Indian activist and writer, a professor at the University of Arizona, and member of the Hunkapa Lakota nation. ... 233) The underlying hate that went with these words is obvious even to the most resistant anti-reparations activist. ... ” (Indian reservation Gambling) Acting as though the Native American Nations should be happy, the American public is blinded by this so called “freedom.” What all Native American reparation activists are saying is that the reparations put forth so, are nothing compared to the long suffering that their Nation has had to endure for the past ~350 years. ... Michael Starkey had a suggestion for Native American reparations, with which I wholly agree. He said, “For Native Americans, reparations should consist of both economic compensation and improved political status of the various Indian nations relative to the United States. ... Therefore, Indian nations need to be able to enter a more equitable relationship with the United States.