Reparations: Should the Indigenous People's of North America

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16. I think they should receive reparations

I think anyone enrolled in a tribe should receive a substantial check from the government and/or their traditional land given back to them if it is still a federal holding (easier in the west coast, I admit). The cost of this is not really that much, so the only reason people have to oppose it is pride and a sense of breached privilege, in my opinion.

This is a considerably easier issue to deal with than slavery reparations as we have a clear criteria (membership of tribe) and as many of them have minimum allotted percentage of native blood for membership it is not really an outrageous cost to enact. I think on a basic moral dimension we need to do this as a nation before that horrific chapter of our history is closed and we can finally begin to progress spiritually and morally as a people.