# Why do I owe Native Americans anything?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 29, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-owe-native-americans-anything/43277 "2000-11-29T23:53:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-owe-native-americans-anything/43277/121 "2012-04-02T08:56:01Z")

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It stands as no such thing.  
The idea that anybody “created” Israel as “reparations” is one of the most enduring, and least supported fictions of the modern age.  
But if you really want to claim that the UN, or anybody else for that matter, “created” Israel, let alone that they did so in order to “right historical wrongs”, you should probably open a separate thread in which to do so.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-owe-native-americans-anything/43277/122 "2012-04-02T14:52:21Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Which they called “maize”.

> [@BMalion](#):
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> Which we now call “corn”.

> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> In every native dialect in the Americas? That’s amazing.

No, that’s acorning, Which the Republicans of course object to! 😃

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-owe-native-americans-anything/43277/123 "2012-04-02T16:59:04Z")

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> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> I think you’re the victim of some brutal puns.

Actually, I think I was channeling some long-suppressed memory of one of [these commercials](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOlD0JZhM4). My mind can be a funny place.

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