Please Support the Onondaga Nation!

[sunnystarr]

65. We owned 4 homes in that area

with two of them right on top of Onondaga Hill. It's so politically correct to agree with the plight of Native Americans due to our history of abusing our nation's tribes.

The Onondaga Nation has never sold or otherwise relinquished its lands or its rights as a sovereign nation. Between 1788 and 1822 the State of New York took approximately 2.5 million acres of Onondaga Nation land, violating federal law, the Constitution and various treaties.

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Today, the Onondaga Nation consists of a 7,300-acre territory just south of Syracuse, NY.

http://www.onondaganation.org/news/2014/the-onondaga-nation-files-petition-against-united-states-with-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-41514/

so what does 2.5 million acres look like?



And up in Watertown you have Fort Drum. It include Skaneateles Lake which is the main water supply for Syracuse. All this for an agreement made almost 200 years ago while our country was in its infancy? The Onondaga Nation cast its lot with this lawsuit instead of building a casino like their neighbors did with the Turning Stone. I remember this going on since the 70's.

If they were to prevail they would own that slice of CNY. Why should they prevail? As unfortunate as it was for Native Americans, we came, we saw, and we conquered. They lost and now cry fowl and want it back. I just can't muster up any sympathy for descendants who are really poor stewards of the land they own now. However they'll just rent everybody their land while residents still pay their mortgages. All property owners wouldn't have clear title to their land ... indeed it wouldn't be their land.

Offer reparations maybe? How would one even begin? We'd have to offer reparations to every tribe then and to whoever else was treated unfairly throughout history. They all have descendants too. Without some statute of limitations how far back can we all go? Why not a few centuries? Sure would keep a lot of lawyers very happy lol.