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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Alaska natives aren't on reservations. They have every advantage in the world, including piles of money handed to them for free, free homes (from Clinton era HUD programs) free medical care, free education, endless loan advantages etc. Outside of developed cities, they are largely all still broke, alcoholic idiots living like hillbillies in a shack in Kentucky.... from Barrow to Dutch Harbor. Their cities have some of the highest crime per capita in the nation (Bethel in particular), they have to ban alcohol from cities and boroughs to keep them from raping, robbing and killing each other while drunk. Incest and child sexual abuse is the norm.
So... so much for your theory.
Anyone can live anywhere and do and be anything they want to, within the law. Many choose not to.
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What is my theory? that natives live like they do because the reservation system in broken? while i do think it is corrupt, broken and only keeps them down they do not have a culture that values money or jobs. alcoholism is rampant, natives can't handle alcohol.
think about it though, while people from europe were discovering the world and creating cities and new ways of living the natives just lived in the same way they always have. in canada eventually people thought it would be a good idea to take away their children and raise them "right" in christian schools where abuse was the norm, carried out by the good white people. this did not help them.