If so, then fair settlement of both the Individual Indian Money Trust Fund and the Tribal Trust Fund litigation is certainly reasonable and a moral duty of the US.

That said, you further assert that these “tens of billions of dollars with which Tribes might address their longstanding problems in health, education and job creation.”

Therein I must disagree, in that while some or perhaps even most of the money would go to valid needs… in the end it will not be nearly enough. Sadly, no amount of money ever will be. That is so because Native American CULTURE does not promote those cultural VALUES that ensure individual success and thus prosperity for the larger group. Obviously there are individual and perhaps even familial exceptions but the characterization for the larger group holds.

There’s a reason why Asian immigrants, many of whom are poor, uneducated and do not initially speak English… rise so quickly into prosperity in this country, achieving in a few generations what has ‘escaped’ Native American’s for centuries.

Until Native Americans and their well-meaning but misguided ’supporters’ face up to the truth, nothing will help them throw aside their ‘victimhood’ and stand upon their own feet as men once again. Sure there ancestors got a raw deal. Dwelling upon it, bring it into the present, only keeps the wound from healing. Life is not fair. You play the ‘cards’ you’ve been dealt the best you can which, you can only do if you’re NOT dwelling upon it.

You get on with life, willing to work hard, keeping a positive attitude and getting all the education you can. You live within your means, save, keep your body and your environment clean, neat and organized and keep your priorities straight.

That’s the simple recipe for success, You can’t make an apple pie with stew meat and water, you have to use the right ingredients.

Until Native Americans learn that lesson deep into the very ‘bones’ of their CULTURE, no amount of money, charity, ‘help’ or recompense will ever be enough.