Well you made two statements.... Yes, they live on the reservation. The reservation does not have facilities for industry. The factory was located in Blanding, which was happy to have it until the venture because successful. At that point, according to the Ute who worked there, Blanding wanted them to hire new employees from the town instead of the reservation. When the Ute told them they wanted to hire only Ute, the town fathers changed the zoning and bye bye Glove Factory. Kiddie, I know I am rough around the edges and not as diplomatic as some people here. I apologize for that. I want you to realize, though, that people here are talking political theory that would affect the lives of people I know personally and worked with. For me, this amounts to seeing hungry people go hungrier while all the forces of the universe arrange themselves in order to correct their situation. It means people with no opportunities being left to fend for themselves in an environment of extremely harsh conditions. I know these people, I lived with them. Harsh judgement to be laid on the heads of people who got royally screwed right from step one.
Want to hear the history of the Ute? They worked with the Gov't as scouts and with Brigham Young to facilitate the statehood process of Utah. They were promised in return access to their traditional hunting grounds and to never be forced onto a reservation. In the late 1800's, after Colorado dropped the Sand Creek Massacre on the Arapaho and Cheyenne people in the northern portion of the state, they kicked every Native American out of their borders except the Ute. They were sent to the extreme southwestern corner of Colorado where it was considered too harsh to ranch or farm. In Utah, the Northern Ute were sent off to the extreme northeast corner of the state, actually a pretty good place. It is mountains, farm able land, has good water and forest. The Southern Ute were sent to run free in the southern half of the state....also good in many places. In 1926 (approx) there was something called the 'Ute War'. 3 men from the Ute tribe pulled a jailbreak of a few friends in Blanding. Now Blanding is an isolates town basically set up to mark the southern boundary of the state by Brigham Young. He sent LDS families down there in the harshest place I have seen in order to claim that corner as settled before the decision on the state boundaries were made. Unfortunately for the Ute, this was also a favorite wintering area. The people of Blanding formed an armed posse, and called this an Indian Uprising. All Ute in the area were rounded up and confined in a large corral in town for weeks while the search went on for the men. The news media descended on the town to cover events and make major news out of a jail break. In the end, the one man who was not found was poisoned when strychnine laces flour was left for him by the towns people. He, by the way, was buried and dug up 5 times for photo ops. In the end, the Ute were placed on land that the people of Blanding had given up on. It was impossible to farm. They sold it to the government, who placed the Ute there. Since then, 3 or 4 generations have passed. The Ute had to tie in with another reservation, so said the BIA, because BIA didn't want to build a station there. The Ute chose Ute Mountain Ute reservation as it was closest. However, as it is in another state, the federal funding sent to the Native Americans in COLORADO is not permitted to be sent to ANOTHER STATE. IT may sound 'inconvenient', but it is the law. Today, Utah will NOT permit the WHite Mesa Ute to build or operate a casino, even though they have NO authority on the reservation. So, as conditions on Ute Mountain improve, conditions on White Mesa have deteriorated. One last point: the situation is also self-defeating. Because there is NO employment opportunity in the area for Ute, when someone finally DOES graduate from high school, 9 out or 10 times they leave to a place that work is available. As of now, not ONE person on the White Mesa. Ute reservation has graduated from college. So maybe you can understand a little why my back goes up when people say that these hungry children are receiving too much as it is. On 6/27/06, kiddleddee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are these people on a "reservation" or not? If they are - and if they > started their glove factory on the "reservation" - then how does the > town of Blanding rezone anything that has to do with them. They > should tell the government of the town of Blanding to stuff it. > > > --- In [email protected] <Libertarian%40yahoogroups.com>, "John > Stroebel" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Before I arrived, they had several failed business ventures. THey > had a > > glove factory, for one. The town of Blanding changed the zoning on > the area > > it was in, and closed the shop down. THey had a cattle > business....closed > > when the drought hit. They had a construction company...closed when > they > > could not compete with the companies owned by LDS contractors. > > > > You seem to miss the picture. > __________________________________________________________ > > No, it seems that you are the one who is missing the picture. These > people seem to be the victims of too much - and too many! - > governments. From the federal government through the tribal > government to the state governments to the local governments. More > government is not the solution to their problems. > > > -- ******************************************************************* Are YOU Preparing For The November '06 Elections NOW??? ******************************************************************* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Save-The-USA/ It is time to do something about all this! ******************************************************************* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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