actually mteg, the signs up north still have the word "reservation" in the Greeting and Departure signs. Drive by them frequently. May not be the case for all tribes. Seems reservation would sound better as in land reserved for them versus mission as in a place to send aid to.

Actually, they don't refer to them as reservations anymore...they call them missions.

Thank you, janesvillean.

Rmoney gives recognition and says: "corporations are people too".

JANESVILLEAN - Good research on Brothertown Indians & that is the same info I would recommend others to read and understand. They really do not deserve the negative comments from those that do not know the historical facts. More historical info below...

"Brothertown History"
http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/icw-157.html

Anyone been to Lac du Flambeau lately? Have you seen the wonderful new clinics, schools, etc. being built? I was pretty impressed with what the tribe was doing with profits from the casino until I discovered it was all being built with the Federal Stimulus money. Oh ... the one tribe was upset about the wolf hunt so the DNR gave them half the permits in the northern part of the state (not just on reservation land). Have not seen any more complaints written about from them. Guess the firewater and guns of 1939 were the stimulus and wolf permits of today. Guess we need the President to stay home and do a reservation by reservation apology tour instead of spending the time early in his term doing a world wide apology tour for all the bad things the United States has done. That is if he isn't too busy asking the Russian ambassador to get Putin to back off on complaining about the European missle defense plans until after the election so that he can more freely negoitiate with Putin. Seems Chamberlain did that with Germany before World War II. That did not work out so well either.

Fedup wrote..."Maybe Obama can just wave his hand and reinstate them. He seems to like to make his own rules as he moves along."

Did he learn from Scooter Walker ?...or vice - versa?

The Brothertown Indians were not originally from Wisconsin. They had voluntarily moved here -- most were Christian -- but faced objections from existing Wisconsin tribes and continued pressure from white settlers, who lobbied the federal government to "remove" Indians (at gunpoint) farther and farther West, even if they had just arrived. The Brothertown (the name indicated their desire to live as a Christian brotherhood) gave up sovereignty believing it was the only way to keep their land here in Wisconsin, i.e. as individual property-owners. Dual citizenship for Native Americans was not to come until 1924, so it was an either/or choice.
http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/icw-157.html
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The idea that all Indians were rooked out of their land because they were ignorant, dumb, greedy, or drunk is, to be polite, itself showing limited understanding of the topic. Often the Indians were facing stark choices as people and made pragmatic and difficult decisions to give up lands and rights because they held very little power and the United States had shown few compunctions about killing Indians who did not submit. See also: The Black Hawk war of 1832. In other words, just as the Brothertown arrived in Wisconsin, they saw a tribe that had taken new lands itself across the Mississippi and found it could not survive in the different conditions there destroyed and defeated because they sought to remain on their old lands -- lands sought by white settlers.

I know this about native Americans; We took full advantage of them to grow our great nation.
In the year 1839 not a lot of native Americans understood the ramifications of giving up their status when the white man was offering firewater and thunder sticks.

Or I should say-yes,Please enlighten us on what anyone know's about being Native American.

Please enlighten us Gary.

What do some of you know about being a Native American?

RAF Maybe you can as you think you know it all. The congress as we know them, will not recognize anyone that does not have millions. Maybe we should not recognize the GOP congress as they have divided themselves from our Country by REFUSING to work together with OUR PRESIDENT and have said so themselves.

Perhaps the dem running for the US Senate in Mass will recognize them. After all she has claimed to be an Indian her whole life but refuses to meet with, or submit proof to, the tribe she says she is from.