Walsh: Native Americans Don’t Deserve Their Own Land

Media Matters has the transcript:

The very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s just — it’s a farce. OK? The whole thing. The whole Indian reservation thing is absurd. Like, can we just be — can we be done with this? What are we doing? What are we doing, exactly?

These are largely miserable places full of crime and alcoholism and drugs and everything else. They can’t even stand on their own two feet without billions in federal funding, federal funding for, quote, unquote, their land. How’s it their land? Like, why do they get to keep the land? Because — I was talking about this earlier and someone said, well, they deserve their own land.

Really? Why do they deserve their land? Why do the losers of a war get to keep land that they couldn’t successfully defend? This is what everyone needs to get through their heads. OK?

The native tribes were — are the losers of a war. They lost. They lost the war. You lost. That’s it. Like, enough with the childish nonsense. These are not innocent victims. They are the losers of a war. It’s called the Indian Wars. It went on for centuries.

These were brutally, brutally violent people. But, you know — and still, in many cases, fought quite bravely. The other side fought bravely too. They lost. They just lost. And you got conquered. OK? It happens. It’s happened all over the world. And so, it’s not your land anymore.

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