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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
the reservation system doesn't work. sure they 'own' their land buts it owned by the band and the band chiefs get all the funding and use it to line their and their friends pockets while the rest go without. they are not allowed to own their own homes so no wonder they live in shit shacks.
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What's even worse with the indians and their reservations is the casinos. We have a local tribe in my hometown who own a huge amount of land. They built what I believe is the largest casino in Northern California. Each one of the indians made bank off of this - they get a yearly salary just because they are a member of the tribe. But it hasn't changed much. There was a series of news stories written about it a few years ago - The end result is they have nicer cars, still live in crappy mobile homes, and the drinking problem has now become a much larger drug problem.