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Post by The Mad Hatter on Oct 13, 2012 0:07:38 GMT -5
Homes affected by alcoholism are estimated to be as high as 90%. Unemployment is estimated as high as 80%. 1 in 3 Native women are subjected to sexual assault or abuse. Non Native offenders are rarely ever brought to justice. Half the population over 40 has diabetes. The town of Whiteclay has 11 residents and 4 liquor stores and sells over 4 million cans of beer to Natives a year. Nebraska refuses to intervene. Alcohol is not allowed on Pine Ridge Reservation. Average annual income is between 3 and 4 thousand dollars. Child suicide is twice the national average. www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/kristof-povertys-poster-child.html |
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Post by ghost on Oct 13, 2012 2:27:11 GMT -5
Sounds unreal. Like... how do they afford the booze without money?
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Oct 13, 2012 13:16:32 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-giago/theyre-only-indians_b_1961764.htmlThe reasons there is a problem with alcohol consumption in Indian Country are many and it would take volumes to explain it. One that is either overlooked or downplayed happened when thousands of Indian children were institutionalized beginning in the late 1800s and continuing into the 1960s. They were taken from their homes and families and placed in Bureau of Indian Affairs or church mission boarding schools in an effort to de-Indianize them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 15:16:15 GMT -5
They're diabetic because they've abandoned the old ways of eating and living and have turned to alcohol to erase the misery of their lives. You see it on reservations across the country. Though I don't know of a rez as poor as this one. It's just too small to maintain the population. Most reservations are on the crappiest land in the country. You can't grow a damn thing on them and tribal businesses are not encouraged. That the state or the feds will not respect the no alcohol rule is disgraceful. The tribal police can't do a damn thing off the rez, they have no jurisdiction. Stopping alcohol sales to NDNs where it is illegal on the rez should not be rocket science. Just another way for the US government to fuck shit up.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Oct 13, 2012 15:20:37 GMT -5
Fire purifies...
*waves at the FBI*
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 23:02:49 GMT -5
The Pine Ridge is my only experience with reservations, and I have a lot of experience with the Pine Ridge.
My mom grew up on the edge of it, went to school with Russel Means and his sisters.
During WW1 the white families were all given coupons for one pair of shoes a year for each family member, the NDNs were not. My mom gave her brand new school shoes to Russel Means littlest sister because she didn't HAVE shoes, in the Dakotas, in winter!!!!
Diabetes, NDNs can NOT process the grains and sugars Europeans are used to, but, they can only afford overprocessed crap, when they can afford food, so, diabetes is rampant, and that goes for alcoholism too.
It's a terrible state of affairs. My "Aunt" Sharon still lives on the edge of the res, she did social work with the NDNs for many years, she would come home and rage, and cry, it was very hard for her. The little girls and women were, and are, in the worst way. They aren't considered completely human, even by many of their men, most are raped numerous times before puberty, by their own relatives, many are mothers by the time they are 13. It's horrible!
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Oct 14, 2012 23:17:14 GMT -5
Yes, the problems are deep rooted and the cure has to begin with protecting and teaching the young. Hopefully we will be in on that in the spring.
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Post by The Mad Hatter on Oct 14, 2012 23:24:35 GMT -5
Recent reports vary but many point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year. The unemployment rate on Pine Ridge is said to be approximately 83-85% and can be higher during the winter months when travel is difficult or often impossible. According to 2006 resources, about 97% of the population lives below Federal poverty levels. Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group. The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average. More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are pervasive. The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average. Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common. The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average. Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average. www.backpacksforpineridge.com/Stats_About_Pine_Ridge.html |
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Post by marisol on Nov 1, 2012 14:13:34 GMT -5
What the government has done to the native Americans will come back to them in time. It's very sad the way they force these people to live.
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