On this point, I would love to see them enforce some sort of... Financial criterion, for things like Abo-only scholarships and all the other gibs (because there's no way they would enforce any sort of "blood quotient" test, or anything like that, these days)... I really can't quite understand how someone from an obviously privileged background can magic up "Aboriginal ancestry" and then claim all that free shit (at my University they even have "Indigenous only" segregated study spaces, which is just... Yeah), when a poor white person, who doesn't have those connections, can't...
From what I've seen, this isn't even that "controversial" of an opinion. It's just that the ones who benefit from it (like Thunig) tend to be the loudest and most influential, and so of course they kick up a stink any time anyone brings this up, lol..
In the US, the tribes are allowed to identify their own members. So whether you qualify varies widely depending on what tribe you claim to belong to. Some enforce a blood quantum. Others do not. They tend enforce it if there's some casino money at stake... otherwise some rando tribe has little incentive not to give you paperwork. It's no skin off their back.
I have never a seen a "college Indian" live on a reservation. And I didn't go to college with any rez Indians. Poverty is endemic in those reservations, so living there would be a reasonable proxy for poverty, if not perfect.
Poor white who are not Indian get nothing, but that's par for the course.
On this point, I would love to see them enforce some sort of... Financial criterion, for things like Abo-only scholarships and all the other gibs (because there's no way they would enforce any sort of "blood quotient" test, or anything like that, these days)... I really can't quite understand how someone from an obviously privileged background can magic up "Aboriginal ancestry" and then claim all that free shit (at my University they even have "Indigenous only" segregated study spaces, which is just... Yeah), when a poor white person, who doesn't have those connections, can't...
From what I've seen, this isn't even that "controversial" of an opinion. It's just that the ones who benefit from it (like Thunig) tend to be the loudest and most influential, and so of course they kick up a stink any time anyone brings this up, lol..
In the US, the tribes are allowed to identify their own members. So whether you qualify varies widely depending on what tribe you claim to belong to. Some enforce a blood quantum. Others do not. They tend enforce it if there's some casino money at stake... otherwise some rando tribe has little incentive not to give you paperwork. It's no skin off their back.
I have never a seen a "college Indian" live on a reservation. And I didn't go to college with any rez Indians. Poverty is endemic in those reservations, so living there would be a reasonable proxy for poverty, if not perfect.
Poor white who are not Indian get nothing, but that's par for the course.