The Big Buy Back

Native American tribes tired of waiting for the U.S. government to honor centuries-old treaties are buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it in a federal trust.

A 100 years ago the Jewish People began buying back Israel from the Turks in order to establish communal lands; they were sold the worst tracts, swamps filled with malaria and other diseases–they brought in eucalyptus from Australia and drained the swamps turning them into futile fields, they reclaimed the deserts.

The Jewish People are indigenous to Israel as are the Palestinians who with their allies wanted to wipe Israel from the map. The Kurds are another indigenous people forced from the a land which today is called Iran.

Though in the American Indian belief system land can not be bought and sold according to the Torah there is a mechanism for the purchase of the immutable. Earth in Hebrew Eretz has the inner meaning of Aleph Rutz/I Run; it is known that the Native American frequently ran across this country before the white man emerged to take control.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says in the end all the world will be considered Holy Land and like the Land of Israel will be required to rest the land every seven years–a sign of respect.