My apologies if this topic has been discussed before, but I don't believe it has.
I just finished reading a book and writing a paper for school. The book was about Premium Link Upgrade , a member of the Premium Link Upgrade .
What really got to me was some investigating I did after reading this book on the Premium Link Upgrade . Feel free to read the article, but I wanted to hightlight this...
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Life in the Pine Ridge Reservation is very poor, probably easily comparable to the least developed countries of the Third World. Unemployment on the Reservation hovers around 85% and 97% live below the Federal poverty level. Average annual ****** income is $3,800 as of 1999. Adolescent suicide is 4 times the National average. Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewer. Many families use wood stoves to heat their homes. The population on Pine Ridge has among the shortest life expectancies of any group in the Western Hemisphere: approximately 47 years for males and in the low 50s for females. The ****** mortality rate is five times the United States national average.
This really broke my heart. I don't want to insult anyone, but for years we have heard about the mistreatment of blacks, and racism against blacks, civil rights for blacks and on and on and on. But what about the American Indians? When do they get their rights? Why isn't there more of an outcry or even awareness of the plight of these people?
We hear all the time about religious freedom in America and that's part of what makes our country so great. Why is it then that American Indians are the only people that need a federal permit to practice their beliefs???
How do we justify ******* these people to live on some of the worst lands in the US? Does anyone think for a moment that any ethnic group (African Americans, Asians, Swedes, Mexicans, Germans...whatever) would tolerate being told today, "Ok...you get this plot of land in Nevada, and that's where you're going to live!"
Does anyone else have any thoughts/feelings on this???
I just finished reading a book and writing a paper for school. The book was about Premium Link Upgrade , a member of the Premium Link Upgrade .
What really got to me was some investigating I did after reading this book on the Premium Link Upgrade . Feel free to read the article, but I wanted to hightlight this...
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Life in the Pine Ridge Reservation is very poor, probably easily comparable to the least developed countries of the Third World. Unemployment on the Reservation hovers around 85% and 97% live below the Federal poverty level. Average annual ****** income is $3,800 as of 1999. Adolescent suicide is 4 times the National average. Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewer. Many families use wood stoves to heat their homes. The population on Pine Ridge has among the shortest life expectancies of any group in the Western Hemisphere: approximately 47 years for males and in the low 50s for females. The ****** mortality rate is five times the United States national average.
This really broke my heart. I don't want to insult anyone, but for years we have heard about the mistreatment of blacks, and racism against blacks, civil rights for blacks and on and on and on. But what about the American Indians? When do they get their rights? Why isn't there more of an outcry or even awareness of the plight of these people?
We hear all the time about religious freedom in America and that's part of what makes our country so great. Why is it then that American Indians are the only people that need a federal permit to practice their beliefs???
How do we justify ******* these people to live on some of the worst lands in the US? Does anyone think for a moment that any ethnic group (African Americans, Asians, Swedes, Mexicans, Germans...whatever) would tolerate being told today, "Ok...you get this plot of land in Nevada, and that's where you're going to live!"
Does anyone else have any thoughts/feelings on this???
