Life On A Reservation In Present Day

The future of Native Americans is unstable. With a lot of their social legacy destroyed forever, many have totally relinquished their authentic roots and have absorbed totally into American culture. The number of inhabitants in Native Americans is consistently declining, with their numbers falling according to registration taken in the course of recent years. younger generations of Native Americans end up moving out of reservations in bigger numbers each year. These youthful Natives are the minority in any community through out the world and they enter outside of a reservation, and they regularly wed non-native American

So many of the Indians on the reservation had given up on trying to move on from their poor lifestyle and have decided to stay with their Indian culture. However, this is not the case for Junior. Despite the fact that he grew up with a variety of medical problems and unlucky experiences, he still did not give in. Now why didn’t he just stay within the reservation he was on? It would have been much simpler if he just stayed there with his family than travel outside of the reservation (not to mention the low chances of him succeeding in getting anywhere). So why bother? The simplest reason would be that he’s determined to get a better life.

Ever since white men came to the New World, they were never at peace with the native peoples. One of the first white men to come to North America was Sir Walter Raleigh, who took the Indians he met as slaves as early as 1584. In the years that followed, settlers forced the Native Americans further and further west. By the year 1850, there had been many attempts at peaceful negotiations and uprisings on both sides, but the government eventually decided that reservations were the only way to contain the Indians and have peace. These reservations took away their pride, freedom, and way of life. Native Americans in reservations today are still plagued by lack of food and shelter, health and

Native Americans have the highest suicide and depression rate. Like Little Tree, Junior, and the NPR Navajo are three Indian’s and a tribe. All of these Indians had to deal with the white men judging and being racist towards them. Like in the book Little Tree when him and his grandfather were walking back home, and a car stopped them and asked for directions she called them foreigners, because grandpa was trying to be polite and the girl did not realize it. Another huge problem that these Native Americans relied on the Government, but the Government did not support them any kind of way. They took over their land and forced them to live on reservations. Besides Little Tree he lived in the mountains. But even though he lived in the mountains his grandparents and him still have’d to deal with the Government.

Native American poverty is a social problem in the United States. For historic, political, sociocultural, and economic reasons, this issue affects not only those impoverished but American society as a whole. The most impoverished Native American communities are frequently within the boundaries of reservations. The rates of unemployment, low wages, and infant mortality are among the highest in the country on several reservations. Disease, mental illness, alcoholism, and fetal alcohol syndrome are also prevalent within the Native American population. To improve these conditions, strategies should be put into place to build stable economies in the otherwise isolated reservations.

Not until now did I realized that Native American Reservations have been suffering the side effects of poverty and unemployment. It is impossible to describe the many factors that have contributed to the challenges that American Indians face today, but many of the statistics and fact show how life is for many in reservations. The poverty in Native American Reservation can be described in no other form than third world. It is common to find people living under horrible living conditions and many vagabonds. Tribes have reported as high as 85% of Native Americans in reservations are unemployed.

Thesis Statement: To inform my fellow COMM 1313 students about the homeless problem in Northwest Arkansas. I will discuss the following 3 aspects of this topic: The current status, who makes up the homeless population, and reasons why people become homeless and common issues they face while

On the Cheyenne River Reservation, there are on average 3-7 suicides per week, including children as young as seven years old. A recent study showed that nearly 50% of girls in 9th grade at Red Lake Reservation High School have attempted suicide at least once and those rates are only rising every year. In addition to depression, alcoholism, and suicide, Native Americans are also expected to live in such poor living conditions that most reservations don't have access to a safe and adequate supply of water. Waste disposal facilities aren't available in 12% of American Indian and Alaskan Native homes as opposed to the 1% throughout the rest of the nation. Without the acknowledgment, funding, and compassion by not only the government but the general public the livelihood for Native Americans isn't expected to get better anytime soon. All of the denial, ignorance, and uneducated assumptions toward Native Americans isn't going to help them and instead of ignoring the problems we need to address them so that all Americans, especially the Native Americans, have access to the most basic necessities of life: clean drinking water, adequate healthcare, education, access to healthy foods and supermarkets, and better living

CB created a great career for himself that allowed him to have autonomy. He explained to us that he worked hard to get the job he had and he was able to make his own schedules and work as often as he wanted. Even though he was able to choose when he worked he usually was there when the other people who are part of his company, including his children, were there. CB explained to us that he was able to work on the reservations still doing his masonry work laying bricks to build things for them. This is when he realized how different life on the reservation was from the way that he was living life off of the reservation. He told us that he wished he wasn’t sent to the boarding school so that he was more fluent in Ojibwe and so he could have been more aware of the practices that they used and still use on the

Living on the reservation you may be surrounded by your own people, but you can still live other places and have a better life. They can still ride bulls if they really want too. They would rather much prefer a real less risky job out in the business world. The indians really get tortured even though they were promise land for their people. They are cut and striped of all the modern day necessities. Just for water they have to race to a well just to get water, if some don't make it their lucked out.

In many rural, resource-based communities, this population is not on wait lists for low-income housing. They are not receiving subsidized rent or qualify for other income dependent benefits. This population is not homeless because they are experiencing poverty, unemployment, poor physical or mental health, addiction,

The Standing Rock Indian Reservation covers 3,571.9 square miles of North and South Dakota, and is home to 6,171 people. Though Standing Rock has been featured in recent news about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), corporate invasion of tribal land is not the only issue this or any reservation faces. The people of Standing Rock have seen the graves of their families desecrated and much of their arable land submerged by the construction of the Oahe Dam, do not have access to sufficient clean water, and have an acute need for more housing to be built. Additionally, according to the the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (USDA ERS), based on data from 2015, the Standing Rock Reservation meets criteria that classify it as a food

2. Suicide, a problem the is all over the United States. But it is of the bigger problems in native communities. Suicide is the second most common cause of death for a native youth age 15 to 24, according to the Huffington

However, the actual school system was also a problem for Coates. When describing his dilemma between street skills and education, he says: “If the streets shackled up [his] right leg, the schools shackled up [his] left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the school and you gave up your body later” (Coates 25). The way in which Coates describes the “shackle” and “giving up” one’s body creates a prison-like connotation for school. He emphasizes on the necessity of balancing one’s schooling with education of the streets in order to survive. In fact, Coates explains how “There was nothing sanctified about the laws of the streets…But the laws of the schools were aimed at something distant and vague” (Coates 25). As schools have to cater to the needs of all of its students, this restricted education inevitably creates a generalized and vague curriculum aimed at the middle class.

In the 1890s, Buffalo’s became an extinct animal as they were hunted and slaughtered by the American Indians and the Europeans. Their numbers began to rapidly decrease, and soon enough, less than 2,000 remained. How did it get this way? The American Indians used bison as their livlihood, they not only use bison for meat, but they were very careful about using every piece of the Bison they hunted. In an article entitled “A Brief History of Bison” the “Bison Basics” author creates a chart listing the parts of a bison used by the Indians. (below)