Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor?

[Ellis Bell]

Originally Posted by parfleche

Wierd I lived on the Southern Ute Rez for 35 years and they are pretty mainstream.They even have a DRY casino and nice museum.Live by the Navajo rez now and they are also in the mainstream.Worked all last winter with Navajo framers on a housing project on the rez,damm them guys are good! as a finish Carpenter behind them it was a pleasure to have plumb door jambs and straight walls.They have all but replaced the illigal immigrant sloppy standard we had,made lots of new friends.Even the Ute Mountain Ute tribe west of me is doing OK.Sure there are poor areas just like everywhere else but I live here and and see the good too.Hell I live in rural flyover country and crackup about the stuff I read about ME!

Live by the Navajo rez now and they are also in the mainstream.

Still there seems to be an issue:
How off-the-grid Navajo residents are getting running water

Lack of access to running water is an issue in many developing countries, but it is also a problem in the United States. Nearly 40 percent of the homes in the Navajo Nation lack running water or sanitation, and many are in such remote areas that they will never be able to connect to a water line. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on new efforts to bring them basic amenities.

When I read the OP, this is the first thing I thought of as it had just been in recent broadcast.

Have also added to thread:
Not Alone In the Dark: Navajo Nation’s Lack of Electricity Problem

and ...

Water Hole: No Running Water on Navajo Nation Reservation

[51squirrel33]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

It is not an "idea," it is a reality.


If you want to, say, build a $10 million rural immigration system, you need $10 million. If you can't earn $10 million somehow, you aren't going to be able to build a $10 million rural immigration system. Your "corporate control of capital" is just so much meaningless mumbo-jumbo. Rather than just spouting off some meaningless mumbo-jumbo, maybe instead you should start listing concrete suggestions as to how a rural area can come up with $10 million.

was there a typo in your comment

[k350]

Originally Posted by thelogo

They were designed to destroy their way of life. They used to have rights to hunt, barter, etc. All that was taken away and were left to receive hands out; left out to wither and die or they could get out and mix with the rest of society. However, reservation are not the only 3rd world places in the US, there are lots of people living in very poor conditions.
Here's an example in New York City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYoPUOXhVA

Everyone's way of life from generations before has been destroyed or transformed, this is not an issue only Native Americans have. However unlike many Native Americans, most everyone else adapted to the changes and/or were the force driving them.

Look at Imperial Russia, we had our lands all seized by the Bolsheviks, mass migration by volunteering and by force ensued for decades, yet here we are, still chugging along better than ever.

[branDcalf]

Why are there "poor" areas in your region? What's wrong with you middle class people?

Stinkin' citiots just know what they see on documentaries. Documentaries made, most often by liberals with a white savior complex. Stay home. Condescending, arrogant pukes.

[James Bond 007]

Originally Posted by 51squirrel33

was there a typo in your comment

Yes. See post #110.