You're listening to KFI, AM 640, the Bill Handel show On Demand, on the Iheart Radio app.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case,

and I love doing that. One of the very sad parts of American history is that every treaty that was made,

I think either virtually every treaty or every treaty that was signed with Native Americans,

the Indian tribes by the U.S. government, has been been broken and this is part of our

history that we all should be ashamed of which is why whenever there was a vote

allowing a native tribes Native American tribes getting licenses for gambling

etc here in California I always voted in favor so let me

tell you what California has just done it has unveiled a plan to bring seven and a

half million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of indigenous tribes

now that's a lot of land this is 7% of the state's land and waters.

And it corresponds with the amount of land the federal government promised it would hold as reservations for the Native American tribes after California joined the Union in 1850.

And of course, it didn't happen.

Now, this wasn't California's fault. This was

Congress rejected all of these treaties. And by the way, in secret meetings after pressure

from the state and failed to notify the tribes. And of course, many of them went ahead and upheld

their end of the agreement and moved and relocated,

and they were going to move to these areas and the government would not give them control.

It was the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and I think the name and controlled it.

And Indians, Native Americans were treated like utter crap, were considered subhuman.

Some of our great, well, not in this regard, but the way they've been treated by American generals.

American presidents has been in utter, utter shame the way these tribes were, have been treated.

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