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I want to be a Seminole.
Is there a possibility in which I could gain a Seminole tribal membership? I need some easy money. And Florida sounds like a relaxing place to stay.
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I want to be a Seminole.
Is there a possibility in which I could gain a Seminole tribal membership? I need some easy money. And Florida sounds like a relaxing place to stay.I read about that. I understand that the selling UK company wants to be prepared for the upcoming liberalization of casino laws in the UK and this sale would allow them to do so.
Originally Posted by Shaka_Khan:
I want to be a Seminole. Is there a possibility in which I could gain a Seminole tribal membership? I need some easy money. And Florida sounds like a relaxing place to stay.
I wonder if the historians amongst us could pinpoint the date in the last three hundred years when it became a good career move to say the above?I want to be a Seminole.
Is there a possibility in which I could gain a Seminole tribal membership? I need some easy money. And Florida sounds like a relaxing place to stay.
These traditional tomahawks and tipi's must have been real sellers, who would have thought?
Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost:
I wonder if the historians amongst us could pinpoint the date in the last three hundred years when it became a good career move to say the above?
I can.I wonder if the historians amongst us could pinpoint the date in the last three hundred years when it became a good career move to say the above?
Basically in the 1960's.
Originally Posted by Fragony:
These traditional tomahawks and tipi's must have been real sellers, who would have thought?
...I'm pretty sure the Seminoles used neither. I could be wrong, you know, I'm hardly an expert.These traditional tomahawks and tipi's must have been real sellers, who would have thought?
This really ruins the image of the nature loving indian.
I wonder if the seminole's are going to share their wealth with all the indian's. I used to live in Oklahoma, right next to a indian reserve. Some of my best friends were indians. They arent doing so well, pretty poor, live in dirt cheap homes that havent been painted in decades and with horrible looking cars. My brother is a bit of a racist against them (I moved when I was 12, he is 17 and spent most of his life around them). He generalizes them as theives, beggars, and cheap.
I wonder if the seminole's are going to share their wealth with all the indian's. I used to live in Oklahoma, right next to a indian reserve. Some of my best friends were indians. They arent doing so well, pretty poor, live in dirt cheap homes that havent been painted in decades and with horrible looking cars. My brother is a bit of a racist against them (I moved when I was 12, he is 17 and spent most of his life around them). He generalizes them as theives, beggars, and cheap.
Daws commission. Expect to see the Indians rebuying old land they previously sold to the government. The agreement allows them to buy it cheap, the prime pieces being along interstates. They're going to hook up with some foreigners and drop a MG auto factory right down the street from me on I-35.
A lot of locals are whining that Indian owned businesses like this (particulalry when they partner with a foreign company) have an unfair advantage due to less taxation = lower prices and better paid employees. I really have no opinion on the issue, except that I would never work for an Indain owned company.
A lot of locals are whining that Indian owned businesses like this (particulalry when they partner with a foreign company) have an unfair advantage due to less taxation = lower prices and better paid employees. I really have no opinion on the issue, except that I would never work for an Indain owned company.
I say good for them. They nearly got wiped out by us and had their land stolen, so it's about time they started owning our businesses.
Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump:
I really have no opinion on the issue, except that I would never work for an Indain owned company.
You wouldn't work for an Indain owned company, but how about an Indian one?, or an American Indian one? or an American Indian one with foreign investment from an Indian company? I really have no opinion on the issue, except that I would never work for an Indain owned company.
Originally Posted by Papewaio:
You wouldn't work for an Indain owned company, but how about an Indian one?, or an American Indian one? or an American Indian one with foreign investment from an Indian company?
You wouldn't work for an Indain owned company, but how about an Indian one?, or an American Indian one? or an American Indian one with foreign investment from an Indian company?
American Indian is what I meant, as taken in context with the thread subject. My reasons for this stems from the whole sovereignity issue, so perhaps "not work for a tribal owned company" would have been a better way to put it. In short, the laws that protect people who work for non-tribal, state and national companies fall into a gray area when you are dealing with a tribe that is considered its own little non-america. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. Doesn't matter though, as I dont expect to be working at the hard rock, a casino or a bingo hall anytime soon.
I love when people dont respond to my posts. Makes me feel that my opinion really matters.
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SARCASM
I didn't respond to your post because the answer is obvious. The answer is no, they won't share it. Tribes are just like any other business, with the upper echelon reaping the most benefits for the ventures. The income gap amongst rich and poor tribal members is as great as that in non-tribal society. The Indian hospital by Ft. Sill is only visited by the poorest of the poor tribals, because its a crummy operation. Tribe members get their stipend from the government and the tribe, and after that if they want to reap the benefits they have to be proactive and get involved with the endeavors the tribe pursues.
The motivated, intelligent Indians I know are all doing well. They capitalized on their little welfare operation and made good. The Indians who drop out of school, sit around and drink and do drugs get jack squat. Thats not to say beuarucratic crap and greed doesn't keep the tribes from investing in their own people instead of buying million dollar houses, because that happens too.
Its funny though, that Indians now own a business that emplys waitresses and bartenders, who work for tips. I delivered pizzas in college, and the Indians were notorious for not tipping. I bet they tip at the bar, though
The motivated, intelligent Indians I know are all doing well. They capitalized on their little welfare operation and made good. The Indians who drop out of school, sit around and drink and do drugs get jack squat. Thats not to say beuarucratic crap and greed doesn't keep the tribes from investing in their own people instead of buying million dollar houses, because that happens too.
Its funny though, that Indians now own a business that emplys waitresses and bartenders, who work for tips. I delivered pizzas in college, and the Indians were notorious for not tipping. I bet they tip at the bar, though
Why not? Hell...everybody else is buying up a peice of the United States-the Japanese, Germans, British, Arabs, Venzulelans, Jews, etc. It's high time that the original indigenous people get in on the action as well.
Yahta Hei.
Yahta Hei.
Maybe you dont understand.
The japanese etc owning a company that is based on (locally owned) land is not the same thing as a tribal company operating on tribal land, governed by tribal laws, privey to tribal rules.
In other words, if I, as a customer who just won 10k at a tribal casino and got robbed in the tribal parkng lot by some thugs, wanted recourse, then technically the tribal law enforcement entity would be responsible for the investigation, rather than the county sheriff, the state police or the FBI. Yay, the Choctaw police are hot on the trail, I feel safer already.
If I, as an employee,were wrongfully terminated from employment by a tribal entity housed on tribal land,I would have an uphill battle vs the tribes considering they are a soveriegn nation operating on their own land, and not subject to typical state and federal laws for the US.
As I said before, maybe i'm just paranoid
The japanese etc owning a company that is based on (locally owned) land is not the same thing as a tribal company operating on tribal land, governed by tribal laws, privey to tribal rules.
In other words, if I, as a customer who just won 10k at a tribal casino and got robbed in the tribal parkng lot by some thugs, wanted recourse, then technically the tribal law enforcement entity would be responsible for the investigation, rather than the county sheriff, the state police or the FBI. Yay, the Choctaw police are hot on the trail, I feel safer already.
If I, as an employee,were wrongfully terminated from employment by a tribal entity housed on tribal land,I would have an uphill battle vs the tribes considering they are a soveriegn nation operating on their own land, and not subject to typical state and federal laws for the US.
As I said before, maybe i'm just paranoid
In other words, they are there own mini-nation inside of a bigger nation. Kind of like hezbollah but minus the thirst for vengeance and blood.
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