Chapter 4 [Tribal Situation]

Everyone must have thought that the Indians were an indigenous people, and they almost didn't let the American immigrants be wiped out, and in the original consciousness, the Indians were all painted with colorful colors on their faces, with a hat made of eagle feathers on their heads, and they were wearing tattered clothes, and they were screaming with stone axes in their hands, rushing towards the people. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Actually, everyone thinks that's right, because more than 100 years ago, the Indians were in such a state, but now it's 2006. The Indians had already changed so much that they still lived on their reservations, but in 1988 the U.S. Congress passed a bill allowing Indians to open casinos on their tribal reservations.

The right to education was also allowed to the Indians, so since then, the life of the Indians has changed completely, the average education level of the Indians is less than 10%, the average income is below the average income line in the United States, but the Indians also have a lot of wealth.

There are also some billionaires, take the bison tribe as an example, although the bison tribe does not operate casinos, and does not have that cornucopia of profits to bring unexpected income to the tribe, but the bison tribe has a unique cattle raising technology, plus the tribe reserves in the middle of the Rocky Mountains with alpine pastures, abundant water and grass, the total number of beef cattle produced each year will not be less than 30,000, and the total number of meat sheep will not be less than 50,000.

Coupled with the taxes of the tribal people, some stock investment, treasury bonds, and art investment, the net income of the bison tribe will not be less than 1 billion US dollars every year, plus the wealth accumulated by the bison tribe over the past hundred years of peace, it cannot be said that it is astronomical, but there are still billions of dollars.

Moreover, the chiefs of the bison tribe, from the generation of Lefou's great-grandfather, have focused on the education of the tribe's people, as well as health care. Boys and girls over the age of six in the tribe receive funding from the tribal government for free education.

Of course, the bison tribe also has some unique customs of the Indians, after graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, female tribesmen will return to the tribe to marry and have children, and male tribesmen with excellent grades can be awarded scholarships by the tribe to enter the university for further study, so the bison tribe regardless of gender, old and young, have received high school education, and are well-known as a high-quality Indian tribe.

In addition, the bison tribe is an independent government organization, although it does not claim hegemony, but the status of the chief is not much worse than that of those Arab tycoons in the Middle East. The chieftain of the Bison tribe holds the power of life and death, holds the wealth of the entire tribe, plus independent government status, with independent paramilitary formations such as the 1,000-man tribal guard.

It can really be said that you want money, money, people, territory, and status, and since then, Lefu Sparrow has become a phoenix and has climbed to the sky. From a small house slave to a standard rich second generation, it can also be said that in the entire American continent, the youngest tribal chief can be proud of Western society.

Although the average level of education of the bison tribe has reached the high school level, and the percentage of education is 100 percent, there are still some remnants of the customs and laws of the primitive Indian tribes. One of them is that the bison tribe practices polygamy, and as long as you can afford it, you can marry as many wives as you want.

There is also the primogeniture, which means that the eldest son inherits the wealth and status of the family, whether it is a chieftain's family or an ordinary people's family. This is also the reason why, after the death of the old chief, Eric Oakes, who was the 41-year-old tribal No. 2 in the prime of life, did not seek to usurp the throne and ascend to the chieftaincy, but traveled all the way to New York to personally welcome Lefu back to the tribe to inherit the throne.

The name is not right, in fact, he wants to usurp the throne and become the chief in a certain dynasty, and the ordinary tribesmen of the 35,000-person bison tribe will not allow such a thing to happen, Lefu is the real and only legal heir, this is the consensus reached by all the tribesmen, and it is useless for anyone to oppose it.

In addition, the bison tribe also has a law that seems very incredible to outsiders, why is it incredible! If this law had been applied elsewhere, the people would have taken up guns and rebelled, overthrowing the tribal chief and even cutting off his head.

However, in the Bison Tribe, this law has been implemented for hundreds of years, and no ordinary tribesmen feel that there is anything unreasonable in the tribe's implementation of this law, and the tribesmen have never objected to these for hundreds of years, that is, the law stipulates that the Niutou Tribal Reserve belongs to the private property of the chief.

Ordinary tribal people use the reserve for both agricultural and pastoral work, and 30 per cent of the output is the personal property of the chief. That is to say, an ordinary family raises ten beef cattle, three of which are the personal property of the chief, and the high tax rate of 30% is enough to crush the average citizen of any country.

Who would accept more than 30% of forcible plunder? When will not rebel and wait? But why did the people of the bison tribe pay such a high tax willingly! That's because the bison tribe pays as much as 30% of the tax. But every year, the chief takes out a large amount of cash to fund the children of the ordinary people of the tribe from primary school, kindergarten to high school, and even university doctorates, postdoctoral fellows are borne by the chief alone, and the chief also bears the full medical payment ratio of more than 35,000 ordinary tribal people, and the ordinary people do not need to spend a penny to see a doctor, all of which are paid by the chief out of his own pocket to see a doctor and take medicine for the tribesmen.

And the most important point is that if ordinary people want to start a business, open a business, open a shop to do business, the chief will provide 100,000 US dollars of funding for free, but 100,000 US dollars will not repay the debt if the tribesmen lose 10,000 dollars, if the funded business is successful, the tribal chief will take 10% of the net income to the chief, for a period of ten years, after ten years, these companies or shops will belong to the ordinary tribesmen.

It can really be said that it is taken from the people and used by the people, which is why the bison tribe has paid a terrible tax of 30%, but the ordinary tribal people have accepted it and cannot object, because everyone has a scale in their hearts, and everyone has a small ledger in their hearts, and everyone will settle accounts.

The taxes collected by the chiefs are very high, but the money taken out by the chiefs each year covers the expenses of the common people in health, education, business, agriculture, etc., which is much higher than the 30% tax burden. That is, the chief spends more money than he collects, and the chief has been sticking to the ordinary tribal people, so how can the ordinary Indian people with high morality, simplicity, fortitude, bravery, rich feelings, gentleness and beauty rise up to rebel.

Of course, it is a bit far-fetched to say that the chieftain pays more than he earns, because the tribe has stored a lot of money over the centuries, and the chief's assets have been developing benignly, growing like a snowball. Although the chiefs spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to subsidize the welfare of the tribal people, the $100 million represents a small part of the chief's income, and a large part is still leftover.

Therefore, the chieftain family of the Bison tribe is still very rich, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a real tyrant, of course, most of the assets are still some art collections rather than cash in circulation. Therefore, it seems to the outside world that although the chieftain family of the bison tribe is not bad for money, it does not have much cash reserves, and it is far worse than those Arab tyrants in the Middle East, and it is not at the same level at all.