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And Donny, lets be realistic, I am from Saskatchewan and remember about 12 years ago when the gov cut off the funding to 8 bands because of "accounting irregularities"?? It was later found out that the band counsel who all lived the high life were skimming money off the top of the funding.
So it goes both ways. And I know our of the hundreds of bands in Sask, those are just the ones who got caught!
Did they get the funding restored? yup y? because as soon as the governments do anything Indian related they claim racism.
Lets all grow up and move on, I say lets pay but then lets dissolve reserves, and relinquish ALL Indian status of any kind (under the law).
Of course the culture will still be alive, but them we ("non-Indian") won't be paying for it anymore.
Only way it is going to work.
The first people to live in the Waterloo area were the Omaha Indians. The word Omaha means "those going against the current" or "those who go upstream". The Omaha were once part of a larger group of Indians. They lived in the South Atlantic region along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They migrated to the Ohio River Valley and then were forced off of that land and moved west. They settled along the Missouri River near what is now Sioux City, Iowa, but were forced off the land by the Sioux Indians. They then settled in Nebraska. The Indians named Nebraska from an Indian word "giha" which means "flat land".The Omaha Indians lived in tipis and earth lodges. The tipi was made from long poles and buffalo skins. It was cone-shaped and was used mainly in the winter when the Omaha Indians were on their buffalo hunts. The earth lodge was a circle-shaped house with a dome roof. The Indians would build a village of earth lodges. They would live here in the summer when they returned from the buffalo hunts and planted their gardens.The Omaha Indians were known as great hunters and farmers. They planted corn, beans, squash, and melons. They hunted deer, muskrats, rabbits, and other game. The most important animal they hunted was the buffalo. The buffalo was their main food source and they also made tipis, clothing, and tools out of the buffalo. The buffalo hunt was a very important event. Everyone except the very old and the sick would pack up the village and take part in the hunt.The Indians had to make their clothing. The clothing was usually made by the women of the tribe. Men wore hip-length leggings, soft-soled moccasins, and buffalo and deerskin robes. The chiefs and warriors also wore headdresses and war bonnets often made of eagle feathers. The women wore T-shaped dresses, soft-soled moccasins, short leggings, and buffalo and deerskin robes.The women of the tribe sewed the clothing, cooked the food, built the earth lodges and tipis, and planted the gardens. The men of the tribe did the hunting, cleared the land to plant crops and build villages, and helped in the building of the earth lodges. The men were also the warriors who defended the village against any enemies. The Indian children were taught at an early age to do their part for the tribe. The girls helped to take care of the younger children, learned to sew, and cook. The boys learned how to care for the tribes horses, to hunt, and how to become great warriors.
Chiefs
The leader of the Omaha tribe was the chief. The Omaha Indians had many great chiefs that led the tribe. Chief Blackbird was a well-known chief. He was one of the first known chiefs of the Omaha tribe after they moved to Nebraska. He was buried with his favorite horse at a place called Blackbird Hill. Big Elk was another famous Omaha Indian chief, he was a peaceful leader. He wanted his people to live peacefully with the white man, He adopted Joseph LaFlesche, also called Iron Eye, whose father was French and mother belonged to the Ponca tribe. He become chief after Big Elk. LaFlesche wanted his people to become farmers and learn how to live peacefully with the white settlers. He wanted the Omaha Indians to be educated and learn how to read and write. Logan Fontenelle was another Omaha Indian chief. His father was French and his mother was an Omaha Indian. He became chief of the tribe in 1853. He was important in signing the treaty that gave the Omaha Indians land to the government. He wanted the people of his tribe to be educated and also wanted them to learn to be farmers. He was well-liked by the people of the tribe and the whites.Early Settlers
In 1854, a treaty was signed with the United States government which gave the government all of the Omaha Indian land. Still the white race is after our buffalo of today, casinos, etc, etc, it's over. We have put a stop to your killing of our infrastructures ( our buffalo).
