Whose Grass is This?
Gold Butte, Nevada:
just across the Muddy/Virgin confluence with the Colorado from the "Lost City". Go to Overton, Nevada someday and see the Lost City Museum. This is my ancestral home. . . . uhhhmmm..... not the Lost City, but Overton, NV. Yah I grew up in St. George because my mom married a guy from St. George. He left when I was born and went to work in Henderson, Nevada, an hour down the shoreline of Lake Mead. . . .
The Paiutes native to the area are a related bunch to the Shoshone natives who inhabited most of Nevada, who still have a legal treaty claim to most of the land in Nevada. A treaty that legally trumps any federal claims to the right to administer indian lands, but which the whites with their government have always had the power to just ignore. Anybody know how many treaties the US government has conveniently disregarded, how many judges have turned blind eyes to the facts???
The Mexicans never "conquered" these people. The Mexicans patronized slave traders who exploited Ute natives who would raid into the areas occupied by paiute bands, called "digger indians" by Fremont and other whites migrating through their areas. They were peaceable when first encountered. Some northern bands, like the Goshutes, did become pretty difficult to manage as they raided white caravans, but they were pretty much just folks living in the river bottoms digging roots and growing a few veggies, hunting game and gathering pine nuts.
But the Mexicans claimed their land on the same legal theory that Spain owned all the land ever pronounced as theirs by bands of explorers waving their arms across wide horizons in the New World.
Then the United States marched some troops down to Mexico and killed a bunch of Mexicans, and forced Mexico to sign a treaty giving the United States the Shoshone lands. Under the impetus of "Manifest Destiny", the American government of that time had a clearly understood policy of rounding up natives and putting them on reservations, and making them wards of the State living lives of abject poverty under conditions that couldn't be better designed to decimate their population if they were true racists and eugenicists hell-bent on genocide. Socialism's laboratory, so to speak.
But for the whites, it was understand that all the new land should be deeded out to settlers or at least grazed by white folks' cattle. It was the understanding of all "Americans" that all the lands gained by purchase or war or treaty should be developed by American citizens, mostly white.
Every territory had land offices and county recorders' offices set up for the explicit recordings of deeds. The evidence needed for a deed? Build a shack, mark some boundaries, and it's yours. Congress later began to make some laws to regulate the process and keep ranchers and settlers from just having range wars and extermination wars against one another, yah.. . ..But nobody was really thinking the FEDERAL government was going into the Landlord business. . . . .
That change occurred at the turn of the century, around 1902, and was made gradually, subtly, without advertisement. One act after another expanded regulation, cemented control, and locked people out of the federal land. By the 1970s, the federal lockout began in earnest under the propaganda of the environmental movement. We were told it was "our" public land, we were told "multiple use" needed to be better managed. Then we were told that the turtles, fish, pond scum, and gnats needed protection, and had to be given priority because if these died off, we'd be next.
That was only half true. The turtles, fish, pond scum and gnats are not going to die out, but the world population needs to be reduced to one billion or less.
So now we are all being rounded up and put on reservations, called cites today, and given socialist rations just like we did to the native Americans.
Folks who go on supporting this kind of government policy today are a new breed, perhaps, but still "racist" eugenicists who want the earth to belong to them and their kids. Well, nah.. .. most of the folks who do this are not on the list which the elites are really going to reserve the earth for. . . . .just dupes who don't know what's really going on, as they shuffle into the corrals and take their place in the butcher's parade.
