Sunday, August 4, 2019

Zero Credibility from the Anti-Reparations Critic

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2019 Glyph Comics Award Winner (BEST COMIC STRIP OR WEBCOMIC)!

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Zero Credibility from the Anti-Reparations Critic." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 04 Aug 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Why do people believe Native Americans have received reparations?

Muhammad RasheedReparations Payments Made in the United States by the Federal Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, and Colleges and Universities

1893: The Dawes Commission, established to enforce the General Allotment Act of 1887 (or the Dawes Act), was charged with convincing tribes to cede their land to the United States and divide remaining land into individual allotments.

1927: The Shoshones were paid over $6 million for land illegally seized from them (although it was only half the appraised value of the land) (Race, Racism, and Reparations by J. Angelo Corlett, 2003, Cornell University Press, p. 170).

1956: The Pawnees were awarded more than $1 million in a suit brought before the Indian Claims Commission for land taken from them in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri (Race, Racism, and Reparations by J. Angelo Corlett, 2003, Cornell University Press, p. 170).

1962: Georgia restored many Cherokee landmarks, a newspaper plant, and other buildings in New Echota. It also repealed its repressive anti-Native American laws of 1830 (Race, Racism, and Reparations by J. Angelo Corlett, 2003, Cornell University Press, p. 170).

1971: around $1 billion + 44 million acres of land: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

1980: $81 million: Klamaths of Oregon ("Spending Spree" by Dylan Darling, Herald and News (Klamath Falls, OR), June 21, 2005).

1980: $105 million: Sioux of South Dakota for seizure of their land (United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980)).

1985: $12.3 million: Seminoles of Florida (see Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook by David B. Mustard, 2002, ABC-CLIO, p. 81).

1985: $31 million: Chippewas of Wisconsin (see Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook by David B. Mustard, 2002, ABC-CLIO, p. 81).

1986: $32 million per 1836 Treaty: Ottawas of Michigan (see Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook by David B. Mustard, 2002, ABC-CLIO, p. 81).


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