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  I’m a dumb dumb I honestly thought the headline referred to restaurants reservations 🤦‍♂️
context: A copy of the Montana resolution can be found here.
  This harkens back to the disastrous Termination policies of the 1940's-1960's where Congress abolished & privatized reservation trust land and dissolved American Indian tribal governments.  My tribe was terminated in 1954-1974.  Valuable prime real estate was then sold off against our will by a non-Native run corporation.  This news is deeply disturbing to me. >
  
  It’s especially disturbing since the US Constitution explicitly mentions Indian lands as being sovereign, so this resolution’s statement that sovereign tribal lands are anti-Constitution is totally nonsensical from a legal standpoint. Not even mentioning the racism inherent in the statements in the resolution. >
  
  What is terrifying is that it has become clear that SCOTUS is now functioning as a mere appendage of the Republican Party. It has no real connection with the U.S. Constitution at all; the Heller decision and the recent decision about Title 42 on immigration make this clear. 
  When you're an "originalist" (which is more or less like holding a séance trying to connect with your framer du jour) you can pretty much make it up as you go along. That's the genius of it. >
  
  As someone that’s now taken multiple constitutional law courses in law school, I’ve called out originalism multiple times in those classes. Originalism is an absolute cancer in the legal community and too often gets legitimized for the sake of “multiple viewpoints.” And it’s always paired with textualism, which, while a good starting point in legal analysis, cannot be the end point. Textualism is just an appetizer to the rest of the analysis.
  Every single opinion I read that’s from Roberts or Alito is like nails on a chalkboard while kicking puppies. They’re disgraces, even more so than the Trump Trio (Gorsuch has his good moments, but those are far between).
  EDIT: To expand on the end of the first paragraph - when you put textualism and originalism together, you get asinine things like independent state legislature theory, a theory with its entire premise predicating on the LACK of certain language in Article I, Section IV of the Constitution. This issue never came up in 245 years of governance and democracy, yet it comes up now? Fucking originalism. >
  
  Gorsuch does Indian cases well. "The United States signed this, we can read what it says, what's the fucking problem?" >
  
  Right, plus he’s been better on trans issues than other conservative judges and justices. His issue isn’t that he was a 1-to-1 replacement for Scalia, it was that his seat was stolen from Obama and Garland because Mitch McConnell is an antipatriot. >
  
  
  The measure, submitted this week and riddled with racial stereotypes
  
  Of course it did. >
  
  A Republican introduced this? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you. >
  
  Not just any Republican
  
  In 2021, Regier promoted a conspiracy theory that tiny tracking devices were being inserted into COVID-19 vaccine doses. During public debate in the Montana Senate, Regier stated, "I've read articles about putting a little chip in with the vaccine... what if that is federally approved and the employer requires that?" >
  
  “I’ve read articles…” lmao a tale as old as time indeed. Only a stone’s throw from “many people are saying…” >
  
  Source? “Dude, just trust me bro” >
  
  Republicans have been trying repeal the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 for years, too. Ask Ken Paxton about that. >
  
  There is a podcast called “This Land” and I believe the second season covers this case. It’s incredibly heartbreaking. >
  
  and i'm sure native americans would like to rethink golf courses, gated communities, and the entire state of florida (you know, for a start) >
  
  In all fairness I think everybody wants to rethink the state of Florida. >
  
  I don't even want to think OF Florida, as far as I'm concerned the coast starts and ends in Georgia. >
  
  Climate change should help us forget about Florida soon >
  
  Translation: Montana lawmaker wants to make money for corporate donors by stealing already stolen land from native Americans. >
  
  Season 6 of Yellowstone? >
  
  John Dutton would never >
  
  Send Rip to handle this quietly. >
  
  Yes, have Rip take this bill to the train station & never speak of it again! >
  
  jamie screaming and stomping in the background >
  
  Montana lawmaker wants to sell Native American land to oil and minding companies. >
  
  The Flathead is prime real estate for developers which is a big deal in Montana too. >
  
  Montana lawmaker discovers that native nations exist on valuable land. >
  
  'Your honor, that land was supposed to be absolutely useless when we gave it to them. So if you think about, its their own fault for daring to own anything of value...' >
  
  Judge: Wait, this is a 17th century speech.
  Lawyer: IT STILL APPLIES, SIR! >
  
  Lemme guess before reading the article, Republican? >
  
  Yep. >
  
  "The measure, submitted this week and riddled with racial stereotypes..."
  shocked Pikachu face >
  
  Who wants to bet that this guy who wrote the bill would be first in line to buy that land and develop it so that he can pocket the $$$? >
  
  
  Native American lawmakers say they’re now spending time responding to the proposed resolution rather than focusing on their own legislative priorities, including extending the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force for another two years, creating a grant program to train community-based groups to search for missing people and encouraging the state to determine the economic impact of reservations on the state’s economy.
  
  Sounds like the goal of this proposal was to suck up all the oxygen and prevent other lawmakers from passing items of importance to Native Americans >
  
  I mean, it can do both. >
  
  Montana man speaking on land that was stolen about wanting to steal more land that was already stolen once from the people they stole all the land from >
  
  While he's at it, he should ask them if they've heard of the "Great Replacement Theory". >
  
  A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF 4 MONTANA URGING CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVES TO THE AMERICAN INDIAN 5 RESERVATION SYSTEM. 
  WHEREAS, the Indian reservation system was created in a different time and place and under circumstances that no longer exist and is therefore inadequate for the conditions that are present in our state  (and nation) in today’s world; and
  WHEREAS, the Indian reservation system has clearly failed to positively enhance the lives and well- being of most of the Indians or the other citizens of the State of Montana; and 
  WHEREAS, for most of our Indian citizens, the Indian reservation system has produced the negative effects of drug abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence, welfare dependence, poverty, and substandard educational achievements, resulting in lack of opportunity for their future well-being and happiness; and 
  WHEREAS, Indian tribes that do not individually own their property have the highest poverty rate of any  ethnic group in America; and 
  WHEREAS, Indian tribes that do not individually own their property have the lowest life expectancy of  any ethnic group in America; and 
  WHEREAS, the Indian reservation system is a policy based entirely on race, which is diametrically  opposed to both the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Montana; and  
  WHEREAS, the Indian reservation system is a policy conferring "sovereign nation" status to individual  tribes inside of the borders of the United States, a policy that is, again, diametrically opposed to the Constitution of the United States; and 
  WHEREAS, previous judicial decisions relative to the reservation system in Montana have produced confusion, acrimony, and animosity among the general population in the past and at present, and will undoubtedly continue to do so in the foreseeable future; and 
  WHEREAS, the continuation of the reservation system is not in the best interests of either the Indians  (Primary Sponsor) inside our borders or for our common Montana citizens; and 
  WHEREAS, we believe the investigation of alternative ways of approaching the reservation system can  and will produce a new system that will enhance the lives, the happiness, and the opportunities for our Indian citizens while at the same time promoting peace, harmony, and stability for all. 
  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
  That the 68th Legislature of the State of Montana urges Congress to:
  (1) investigate alternatives to the American Indian reservation system; 
  (2) undertake this investigation as soon as is reasonably possible; and 
  (3) communicate the progress of this investigation to legislative leadership in Montana and any state containing a reservation for American Indians. 
  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of State send a copy of this resolution to each member of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the United States Senate, the Governor, and the tribal governments of each of the federally recognized Indian tribes in Montana. 
  
  END - >
  
  What are they expecting the Native Americans to do? Move some where?  Do you think the people of Montana. Will agree with this? >
  
  I guess the answer to those questions depends on how racist you are. >
  
  Yes! I had a woman refuse to use the same restroom (multi stall) as me at a trailhead. And apparently WE are the uneducated ones? >
  
  Glad the head of the DOI is not a pushover. 
  - Deb Haaland >
  
  How to say there are valuable resources under reservation land without saying there are valuable resources under reservation land. >
  
  I’m so goddamned embarrassed to be from Montana sometimes. >
  
  Same here. Things have really gone off the deep end in the last decade. >
  
  Seriously. It makes me so sad and angry. >
  
  White man wants to break the Government's word again. >
  
  Mt. Rushmore is evidence of that. >
  
  what an asshole >
  
  Land-grabs haven’t gone away, they have just cloaked themselves in the language and theater of the modern political news cycle. >
  
  
  I hate spending energy and time on this kind of stuff because I feel like it sidetracks us,
  
  This is the point. Republicans are taking us back to pre civil rights America. If we don't fight back hard things are going to change quickly. >
  
  As a Montanan, I am deeply ashamed of this act of white supremacy. Regier's on record quoting Nazis, so I'm dumbfounded as to how he's still in office. >
  
  That’s a no for me dog. >
  
  And this is why they keep white washing the history books. >
  
  Someone has an eye on some land >
  
  WHEREAS we have not asked a single Native American what they think >
  
  “Well we are white male christians, we know what’s best for everyone!” >
  
  Asshole wants to take away the last bit territory Americam Indians can call their own in Montana. Absolutely disgusting. >
  
  No. >
  
  One of the few times people like this asshole are comfortable using "they" and "them" pronouns. >
  
  Yea guess whites have not screwed them enough huh? >
  
  We should make Reservation lands for the GOP and keep them all fenced up there, if they want to build Casinos I know a guy… >
  
  Last sentence of the article is very telling.
  
  Republicans denied any legislation was discriminatory.
  
  Indeed, Republicans claim to have never seen any discriminatory legislation, even while they constantly propose and vote on it. >
  
  I think it’s been made abundantly clear over the last couple decades but especially in the last several years.
  If you aren’t a rich, white, straight, christian male you WILL become a target for the GOP to shit all over eventually >
  
  They don’t know what it means to be Christian. >
  
  I can guarantee, without knowing the politician, that he's a Republican. >
  
  To me this just indicates there are resources there that someone wants to exploit but they are unable to because it's reservation land... it shocks me that whoever it is would rather try and displace residents and eliminate tribal interests in those resources than just work with the tribe for the mutual benefit of both... capitalism is a disease of the soul >
  
  One thing I had a conversation regarding outside of the Deep South was a bunch of my urban friends didn't realize that I, someone who grew up in the Eighties, had been taught the Lost Cause as gospel. They assumed that it was a dead and gone thing from long time ago. >
  
  yeah... i have been in texas my whole life, i understand how racism is ingrained in the culture... i am still shocked when people will spend millions and disregard their self proclaimed morals because they just can't stand to see non-white people make money... especially when it's to their own economic advantage for those folks to benefit >
  
  They remembered that native Americans still have something valuable they have not stolen yet. >
  
  Great. The more bizarre things the out of control GOP House of McCarthyites spends its time on, the less damage they will do to US.
  Going after Native American treaty rights will bring up a lot of bad dealings on the part of US which will expose the McCarthyites white supremacy. >
  
  The Tribes aren't as defenseless as they used to be. They do have money and resources and are capable of hitting back >
  
  Native Americans have nothing to worry about with GOP'ers.
  It is the GOP'ers that have to worry that the mad hatters than run the GOP will cost them votes in 2024. >
  
  I'd be ok with getting rid of the reservations if we gave the tribes Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas as their own country. >
  
  You know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them. >
  
  Yep and the same could be said for the House Of Representatives. >
  
  Leaving that state is the best decision I have ever made. >
  
  Is there a good compound word that means utterly unfazed and totally shocked at the same time? As in, that’s a helluva fucked up bill but no surprise who offered it sorta thing? >
  
  He looks exactly like someone who would do that. >
  
  What a dumb mother fucker >
  
  Fuck.  These Republicans need to be neutered >
  
  Don't they teach history in Montana? >
  
  Yep. And we visit the battlefields in classes too. 
  But this fuck is from Kalispell, went to school in Missoula, and is a real estate developer. The flathead valley, which is between those two areas, is a reservation, and it’s one of the most beautiful areas I’ve ever been to (and I’ve traveled all over the world). 
  politicians are leveraging land in my state to developers for kickbacks. 
  Just as an aside Regier is also racist af, and has no business being in politics. >
  
  He’s just trying to return american to its deep traditions of making deals with native Americans and then not honouring those deals. >
  
  I agree we should revisit the idea of reservations and give them their own fucking land back >
  
  Let me guess, he gets donations from an oil company that wants to drill under s reservation >
  
  Aside from sending in the Army to murder civilians, how is this different from Putin’s declarations of claiming Ukraine’s territory as Russia? >
  
  How about we actually provide proper funding and resources to them instead of treating them like shit? >
  
  That's my solution but about 6 years ago, I realized that half the country is deliberately not interested in helping people but destroying a good chunk of it.
  beat
  Yes, I was a slow to learn mutherfucker. >
  
  "The draft resolution argues that reservations have “failed to positively
   enhance the lives and well-being” of Native Americans, led to substance
   abuse, domestic violence, welfare dependence, poverty and substandard 
  education." This sounds like a typical Republican run red state. So,by this mans own standards, why should they still be allowed to govern? >
  
  By being white. >
  
  You mean corporations want to revisit the idea of reservations >
  
  This is why I could NEVER vote for a Republican! >
  
  Ugh. after not being able to go over black people being able to run for election, then over one getting elected president, the republicans can't go over the mere existence of native people.
  This is a dumpster fire party.
  Like no guys, they also have a right to their life and homes and not being attacked by gop wannabe burglars gangsters. Equal rights means what it means.
  No having some ancestor born into a formerly poor and broke/n european nation they fled (because medieval europe was a waring, hungry, sickened etc hellzone of it's own making so they tried their luck out to the to-be-usa) making you whiter of skin color by hazard -genetic lottery- isn't an accomplishment on it's own.
  Yes they also have and should have the same rights than you do. I'm not gonna make a list of everyone you shouldn't discriminate against just because you're massholes come on. Do we need to put it in the constitution or something /s ?
  Edit obviously since i immigrated from Europe (...too?) on and off i'm not remotely a native but it shocks me how racist/discriminatory/fascists scum think it makes them better, let alone of how fascism constantly expand the groups they discriminate upon historically. First they came after the jews, then the blacks, then... The list goes on. >
  
  I’m all for it,  let the trump cult move to a reservation if they want where they can have their own tribal laws and casinos and “schools”.    
  I think we should use the same methods used to chose site locations for the forced relocations of First Nations peoples. >
  
  
  I’m all for it, let the trump cult move to a reservation if they want where they can have their own tribal laws and casinos and “schools”. 
  
  Isn't that just Texas? Or Florida? >
  
  No because the normal people live there too >
  
  Grant them statehood >
  
  Montana congress is going to be an utter shitshow this year. i am not looking forward to it. >
  
  Just when you think they can’t get any worse. >
  
  For the domestic terrorists? >
  
  Yeah sure. It’s not like treaties are the supreme law of the land or anything. We should toss out the constitution while we’re at it. >
  
  Why not “revisit idea of plantations” while you are at it. How do these people get voted into positions of public service? >
  
  Because 1/4th of America is incredibly racist.
  One half is just really racist. >
  
  Some of this is just too funny without trying to be funny"when they asked if the author of this legislation had reached out to the tribal elders for their input he did not respond"I mean I know that as a journalist you have to reach out and reach out and reach out and reach out and reach out with that phone call is never going to be returned >
  
  Journalist: What did the Natives have to say about this plan?
  Republican Lawmaker: Huh? >
  
  Well the natives didn't say anything because they were not contacted I would imagine this is a guy trying to yank their land out right from under them.
  And when I say the man responsible for the legislation you will find on both sides of the aisle depending on the issues that interested parties with deep pockets and checks already made out to the senators or congressmen and women are not just consulted on how they would like the laws written they will literally write the laws themselves and then have said Senator or congress person sign it. 
  That's how you get a 800 page tax code and in turn of course people like Donald Trump pretty much paying net Zero taxes for the last 6 or 7 years. >
  
  I mean it's obviously a blatant land grab and racist as fuck.
  There's not even a veneer of paint over it. >
  
  ME TOO!  No matter how far in advance I make my reservations, that fancy schmancy restaurant ALWAYS makes me wait a half hour before seating me — AT THE BAR! >
  
  it's not surprising to find dumb assholes in a country built on genocide. >
  
  I firmly think that all restaurants should take reservations, personally. I hate not being able to schedule a table anymore.
  Wait that’s not what this is about? Racism? Ugh >
  
  Completely, and I imagine the business man in question is pretty much a dickensian nightmare who will shove them off the land have the land sold before it's even foreclosed on and be the first one to whine about these homeless natives can anything be done about them >
  
  He has a point that reservation life for indigenous peoples is not providing a high quality of life but, motherfucker, who is to blame?! It’s like stealing someone’s car and shoving them in the trunk then saying that we need to stop these people from riding in their trunks because it’s too dangerous! >
  
  So messed up they can just steal land on a whim in 2023. >
  
  This issue is WAY more complicated than most know. Reservations have huge up and downsides. Like, you can't own the land your home is on, but if the reservation is disestablished the land can be taken from the tribe, etc. And everyone who knows what's what in laws regarding natives and reservations knows that the present situation is untenable, but no one has figured out what the future needs to look like and a path to get there. Also, the whole system is vulnerable to Congress just declaring the reservations outside the US and the tribe members not US citizens. It's all a mess. >
  
  On the one hand, I recoil at the idea of giving any comfort to the white supremacists and nationalists who are no doubt behind this resolution. 
  On the other hand — they aren’t wrong. Reservations ARE plagued by exactly the problems their resolution describes. 
  My sister-in-law is chief doctor at one of the US’ largest reservations. I have visited it and have listened to her stories of serving the Native American population there. That reservation IS beset by substantial problems tied to intractable poverty and addiction. 
  I have also known the special master overseeing the settlement of the lawsuits between multiple tribes and the Burrau of Indian Affsirs over the BIA’s gross mismanagement of millions in funds they were supposed to invest and disburse to tribes. His horror stories would make you nauseous. 
  I have also spent time at the dust bowl known as the Navajo Nation reservation. It is, and always has been, a terrible place to live — a place we forced on the Navajo a long time ago that no responsible human would have chosen as the settling place of any group of people. 
  I don’t pretend to know what the solutions are to the problems afflicting reservations — but if this resolution accidentally sparks a conversation about how those problems can be solved, so much the better. >
  
  There are a lot of changes that could be made to give the Nations the same benefits of non-reservations.   The Federal funds given for housing, for example, don’t have to meet the same inspection standards, tribes are not always consulted on location, you can’t get a loan to build a house on a reservation because the banks can’t repossess it.    There should be federal guarantees like there are for student loans.   It’s a sad situation and proposing to steal land again infuriates me. >
  
  Yikes.
  When are the abolitionists & co gonna remove this guy from power? >
  
  Let’s revisit this he idea of all U.S treaties >
  
  Have may be fine with waiting for a table but if you know ahead of time when you will be there why not get a reservation >
  
  There’s a line in there which if I read correctly was something like ‘we should get rid of reservations and just give them the land back that was stolen.’  
  Which, okay , is like… all of it?  Like what’s even the angle there, just racism and stupidity being bedfellows per usual? >
  
  
  Like what’s even the angle there
  
  1) Remove protections from land.
  2) Sell/mine/develop that land. >
  
  If anything reservations for indigenous peoples should be expanded to cover most of the country. >
  
  Giving land grants would be a good thing. >
  
  I think first people should be allowed to create reservations for non first nations people and send those people of their choosing (like this congressman) to that reservation. I suggest they start with an uninhabited Aleutian Island. >
  
  Why, so all the Q-Anons can live in one place? >
  
  Living in Kentucky, I can attest it's already here. >
  
  For what reason exactly remember the reservations had Native American population in mind >
  
  If it has to do with water- tribal lands will not survive. >
  
  I assume if this bill were to pass, the Native Americans would not be allowed to vote for fear they wouldn’t vote Republican. >
  
  I lived in MT for 28 years and the state of the reservations there, especially in the central part of the state are abysmal. Most people I knew were openly racist and demeaning toward natives. Having been around it so much, I didn't realize how bad it was until I moved to Western WA where, at least so far in my experience there's far more respect and equal treatment, as well as a lot more education in schools. >
  
  Oh I have lived in Montana for 30 or so years and my experience has been the opposite. The respect shown toward native Americans has always made feel quite proud of my fellow Montanans. 
  I think like anything it probably depends on where you are from/living. >
  
  They always have no chins