It tends to only be bad on the reservation system because of the reservation system which creates mini socialist ethno-states.
Where native populations actually lost all of their political power, and were successfully integrated into the US by simply being brought in as citizens, those communities basically exist only at a cultural level, and are typically doing fine.
Can confirm. Our local tribe got told to suck it by the government and didn't even get recognized as existing until like 15 years ago, which means there was nothing left to even give them.
They are doing about as well as everyone else in the surrounding area, if not better because they seem to make up the majority of the trawling boat captains (an industry that claims like half our population). They go to their tribal ceremonies every month or so and then live like white trash like the of us the rest of the time.
It tends to only be bad on the reservation system because of the reservation system which creates mini socialist ethno-states.
Where native populations actually lost all of their political power, and were successfully integrated into the US by simply being brought in as citizens, those communities basically exist only at a cultural level, and are typically doing fine.
Can confirm. Our local tribe got told to suck it by the government and didn't even get recognized as existing until like 15 years ago, which means there was nothing left to even give them.
They are doing about as well as everyone else in the surrounding area, if not better because they seem to make up the majority of the trawling boat captains (an industry that claims like half our population). They go to their tribal ceremonies every month or so and then live like white trash like the of us the rest of the time.