About four months ago this 39 year old Native American guy moved in next door(bought the house from a nice couple). He Is full blooded Ojibwe from Minnesota. Since day one he has been a complete nuisance.He kinda hates white people.He is so angry at white people. He always says that white people are living on the land that they stole while forcing them to live on reservations that are some of the worst land in the country. He always says that Columbus was a terrible human being and the fact that he is still celebrated should offend anyone living in the United States. He says that Columbus was an imperialist, racist invader who began the conquest of a people and a land. He told me that he has 5 children (4 boys and one girl) with two different Native American women. All of his children live on Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota with their mother's. . He’s a bad dog owner, neglects his dog to the point where he would chain him up and leave him outside for days. We have called the cops and animal control. And he would stop for a week bring his dog inside as he has no fence, but goes back to his usual bullshit ways. He is also an aggressive confrontational person. He has gotten into loud unnecessary arguments with other neighbors as well for doing stupid things in the neighborhood. His dog runs around without a leash all the time. His dog is unfortunately pretty dangerous, and honestly I think he has trained him to be that way, plus add on the neglect he gives him. He is a Rottweiler and has already broken loose quite a few times from his chain when he is tethered, and has also almost killed another dog in the neighborhood. I am feeling pretty uncomfortable in my house. And honestly, I tried to work things out with him prior to calling animal control or the cops but he comes with a million excuses as to why he was being irresponsible with his dog. His dog has also gotten into my garage causing a mess, and other people’s garage too, and were afraid that the Rottweiler would attack but luckily no one has been bit. Now animal control and the cops do come, but I am not the only one calling them either-there are other neighbors calling. However he assumes and thinks I am the root cause of them coming to his house, and has started to really HATE MY GUTS. He is now resorting to taunting me, knowing that my camera picks up his loud stupid comments and racial slurs about me. He’s also yelled out obscenities and racial slurs about me late at night(all of this nonsense he literally is just yelling out into the neighborhood). . Sorry for the long post, but any sound advice out there? I’d move, but legally you have to disclose bad neighbors and don’t think anyone would be that dumb to buy a house just to end up putting up with his antics.
Despite the fact he's right about Columbus he sounds like a nuisance. Just keep using the police. Having him on tape yelling racial slurs could be considered a threat.
Why are you associating one man's poor behavior with being Native American? If we judged every race by a bad example, we'd all be in dire straits.
I'm Native American, and we have bad neighbors too--only they're white. One woman and her son, in particular, keeps her place like a junkyard, regularly exceeds the speed limit in a neighborhood where there are small children, lets her pets run loose in violation of ordinances, and is as thoroughly disagreeable as yours seems to be--to everyone, not just Indians. The basic problem is they're nuts. If you figure out what to do about it, let me know. Report violations to the authorities and try to make the best of it is about all I can think of. Or get a lawyer. Sounds like what he's doing is at least borderline harassment and private nuisance. Of course, that'll cost you money and lawsuits are never certain, especially with a racial angle involved. Good luck, but don't take it out on Native Americans. P.S. Do you see a problem starting a thread "Why are Native Americans so angry?" on the basis of one person's conduct? I could as easily start one entitled "Why are white people so bigoted?" based on the example of your post.
No, but he got others interested in doing so--Cortez, Pizarro, the Pilgrims, etc. There went the neighborhood!
profit by it.. make a youtube channel showing off his crazy antics, make millions of dollars.. move.. problem solved.
Maybe OP accidently sounded ignorant about how generalisations work (like she did it in the OP) and the native American neigbour perceived that as racist/discrimination (very understandable) and is now pissed off at her.
I am not racist. I am liberal. I am a 54 year old red haired freckled face green eyes thin lips 5ft2 tall skinny masculine single soft butch lesbian woman. People call me ugly alot of the times, and also make jokes about my looks. Ever since I was 14 people always call me names. Since childhood I have suffered taunts about being ugly,ginger,short and masculine. I suffered the worst bullying in high school, It was torture. When this Native guy first moved in next door, he was friendly. We talked. He told me that he used to be physically violent towards white people. He told me that often people would make fun of him, use racial slurs towards him, so he fought and beat white guys up at times. In February 2002 he beat up a white guy to a pulp on a gas station in Iowa, so he spent a year in county jail. I am afraid of him. You must understand. I am just a tiny small older woman.
Not saying you have a racist mindset, but I wanna point out the obvious that your description of yourself doesn't make it impossible to have one at all. Not sure if you used it as an argument for not being racist though 'Even' a liberal can have racist convictions or utter discrimating generalisations.
I can see you may understand how a minority might feel. That's very important! Being gay/lesbian you likely have some very serious lessons under your belt. I didn't read the initial post, but I know about having neighbors that aren't trying for any awards. I think you can probably see why we don't care for the title of the thread, @Sinead 1965. I can see that you're worried, so here's what I do when my neighbors get the best of me. Don't feel like a rat for calling on the police. Not only is it their job to intervene on your behalf, it's also your right to feel safe! And that's a fact.
Speaking of lesbians and bad neighbors, one of our neighborhood problems concerns a couple of women who live across the pond and keep their property like a junk yard. They happen to be lesbians, but to the best of my knowledge their untidiness has nothing to do with their sexual orientation.To the best of my knowledge most lesbians are neat, tidy and respectable. These two also happen to be police officers, which leads the neighbors to think they'd get nowhere complaining to the authorities. And if we tried, we'd be afraid of escalating the situation like Sinead and the Native American. Many of us moved here for the view, and got that instead. We've tried planting a tree screen, but that didn't really work. C'est la vie!
Dogs in a Crow Indian village have their own society . Some are free in a civilized way . A diverse variety of these gather every morning at the center then stroll about together visiting the backyard kennel dogs . And also there are some old-time dogs of ancient and wilder days who live at the garbage dump . These have retained the Native-bred village dog characteristics . They are not pets . A modern city would seem to be unsophisticated and basically unsociable (rude) .
The US has the worst social record in the developed world, with one in five on prosac alone and an epidemic of alcoholism, heroine, and suicide currently underway. If he complains all the time, its because he's American, not because he's native. Next you'll be telling me Donald Duck is not a thief and Fox News promotes world peace and loving families.
I'm scared. He's obviously making it a point to be aggressive towards me even though he is absolutely in the wrong.
Bullies are all the same, but almost all of them are cowards. If he's over thirty, there's a good chance he's all mouth, while younger men are stupid and less predictable. Too many hormones.