It was the new one with the Native American and their plan to destroy South Park. I found it very funny. But that isn’t why I posted. I want to know if it would be legal for Native American casinos to collect money and to buy back land little by little. How much land could they regain before it becomes illegal? Would it be that hard for them to do this? If not, what is stopping them?
( I posted in Cafe Society because its about a show, if this belongs somewhere else, my bad, please move it)
Why would buying land be illegal? I’ve never heard of there being a limit on how much land you can own in the U.S.
Maybe what you meant to say was “could they add to their tribal lands by buying more outside their borders”? In other words, can they increase the size of their nation? That’s a question I’ve frequently wondered about myself.
they probobly don’t because they aren’t a monolithic entity… and whoever personally holds the money isn’t going to spend it to benifit others in a tiny amount when they could just improve their own life and buy themselfs a new house instead of a couple hundred achers for some people that happen to be the same race.
(not that no generous people exist, but meh, not something to count on, assumeing your white, if someone handed you 100$ would you be more likely to spend it on the betterment of the white race and some land for some strangers… or a DVD player?)
They didn’t want the land to be part of their reservation. They just wanted it to build a highway directly from Denver to their casino.
I thought someone could say that it would eventually end up a monopoly, since they will own the businesses on the property.
Unless I really misunderstand a lot of things: nope. Another issue might be that the land might not be legally part of the reservation as far as the exceptions to laws that exist on there. I don’t really know what the case would be.
buying land would not add to the size of the reservation. Land owned by us is realy not “owned” in the same way as reservation land is “owned” by native americans.
For startersland taxes as well as all other “white” laws would appy to the purchased land. A native american for instance can not buy a chunk of land, call it part of the reservation, then build a casino on it. (similar has been done, but requires a legal redefinition of the land in question).
Aw, fudge! I forgot to tape the episode on Wednesday, so I was going to watch it last night. And then I forgot again and watched something else.
Is it going to air again?
Okay, now here’s what I don’t understand about that episode:
Native Americans get rich off of their casino. Native Americans decide to build 12-lane superhighway through South Park. At least one South Park resident (Kyle’s dad) lost his house to said Native Americans by gambling it away.
All it would take to block the building of the superhighway through South Park would be if one house was standing in its way that the Native Americans didn’t own! We know that Stan’s parents and Cartman’s mom still lived in their houses at the time Kyle’s dad lost his, so Stan’s parents and Cartman’s mom almost certainly still owned land in South Park. Why couldn’t they just refuse to sell that land to the Native Americans?
And is South Park such an incredibly narrow town that building one freeway through it requires the entire town to be bulldozen over? (I mean, I know the animation in South Park is flat and 2-dimensional and all, but …)
The adults of South Park are exceptionally stupid. What more do you need to understand, really?
A wizard did it.
No kidding. Tracer, you’re asking why the same group that thought “letting it ride” on the roulette table was a good idea didn’t think of an effective plan to prevent the highway? 
Also, the Native Americans presumably had to buy the land the town was on, not just the houses, so the adults couldn’t have saved a house. Also, if I remember the Colorado Land Ownership Title Code…
Aw hell, I never even watch South Park. I’ve seen this ep twice and now I’m posting about it. 
PLUS when the Indi— uh, Native Americans decided to abandon the project and not buy and raze the city, wouldn’t Kyle’s dad still have needed to buy back his house that he lost at the episode’s beginning?
Ahem. We said A. Wizard. Did. It. !
OK, I’m stupid. No, make that “ignorant.”
Is “A wizard did it” a reference to something?
It’s a Simpsons reference. Specifically it comes from one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes. Lucy Lawless is at a convention of some sort and someone asks he a stupid question about an inconsistency in an episode of Xena, to which she replies, (paraphrasing) “If you ever see something like that in a tv show, a wizard did it.”
That whole part about Kyle’s dad losing their home really had no point, whatsoever. It wasn’t even necessary to the plot. Or was I missing something?
The NA’s were forcing the South Parkers to sell under threat of buying their mortgages or the banks that held them. And since the value of the town was a humerously small amount, that would be easily do-able.
Was there a similar kind of story (the happy ending, I mean) when the settlers displaced the Indi…Native Americans?