W. E. B Du Bois one time stated “to be a hapless adult male is difficult. but to be a hapless race in a land of dollars is the really underside of hardships” ( qtd. in Rodgers 1 ) . The Native American civilization is frequently overlooked by many people in the United States today. What many people do non recognize is that about 25 per centum of Native Americans are populating in poorness ( Rodgers 1 ) . A bulk of the poorness among Native Americans is due to the United States interrupting pacts that promised financess for their folks.

When non-Native Americans first began migrating to North America. the Indians were easy holding their land stripped off from them. and being pushed to populate on little. ailing kept reserves. Equally good as taking their land. non-Native Americans fought wars with the Indians. pass overing out big Numberss of their population ( Jenkins A9 ) . Populating in poorness has caused many early mortalities. alcohol addiction and offense. Today the few Native American folks that are still in being have had enough. They are ready to take control and do their rejoinder. in hopes of continuing their civilization and supports ( Gorospe 95 ) .

Several folks have begun gap and runing their ain casino resorts. some have failed. but several have been successful ( Nykiel 51 ) . President Obama has besides been doing promises of financess to the Native American folk. hopefully these promises will be kept. and better the Native Americans manner of life ( Nasaw 1 ) . Native Americans are get downing to happen the finding needed to do a rejoinder. Much of this finding in from choler. so much has been taken from them that their angry emotions towards the non-Native Americans is rather apprehensible.

Land has been taken from the Native Americans. they have been forced to relocate several times. While relocating their economic resources are taken from them and they are non given any opportunity to supply for themselves. The reserves in which the Native Americans are forced to relocate to are barely liveable. Un-fair wars have been forced upon them and no regard has been shown to Native Americans ( Jenkins A9 ) . One chief ground for poorness among Native Americans is the United States Government being unable to supply the one million millions of dollars that have been promised to Native American folks.

A leader from the Sioux folk provinces that “they were siting to get the better of the poorness. alcohol addiction and desperation that had engulfed their people for more than a century. and said existent healing would non be possible until the U. S. Government lived up to its pact obligations” ( Walsh 8 ) . Native American reserves are little and stray. The life conditions are hapless due to the deficiency of money. so as a consequence this can do many wellness jobs for Native Americans. There are hapless roads and no pavements. which makes it hard to go in and out of the reserve. so this would be a chief ground for their isolation.

No signifiers of public transit are provided for the reserves since there is no money. There is no money for the Native Americans because the United States Government has non provided the support that they have promised ( Gorospe 96 ) . Basically it is a Domino consequence that is non profiting the Native American population in anyhow. Before the Europeans migrated to America. Native Americans did non confront many diseases. Post-arrival of the Europeans. diseases such as variola. grippe. rubeolas. typhus. malaria. Hansen’s disease. and several others began to consequence the Native American population ( Grandbois 1002 ) .

Soon these diseases and many other disablements can be one of the many grounds why Native Americans are in poorness. It is inconvenient for Native Americans to seek aid when it comes to being ill. so a bulk of the clip they rely on natural remedies or do non seek aid at all. In many Native American civilizations they live with their drawn-out households who will supply the handicapped member of the household with whatever undertakings they are unable to finish. so many do non see themselves as handicapped ( Gorospe 96 ) .

Equally good as any other individual. disablements badly affect a Native Americans life. Having a disablement or disease causes a individual to be unable to work. so as a consequence this would do a individual to hold less income and live in even more poorness than a to the full able Native American. In an exigency state of affairs it can be really hard to seek aid due to deficiency of transit and isolation of the reserves. this can do it hard for exigency vehicles to make the reserves. In 1976 the Indian Health Care Improvement Act was passed.

The act stated that Native Americans would have the same signifiers of wellness attention that all other Americans were having. In 1992 it was clip for Congress to reauthorize the act. but they ne’er did. Since this act has non been reauthorized many Native Americans wellness systems are out of day of the month and in serious demand of betterment. Once this act is reauthorized it will better disease testing on reserves. supply support to overhaul Native American wellness installations. and will besides assist the Native American population better understand ways to forestall unwellness and disease ( Rodgers 4 ) .

Tom Rodgers states that If supplying better wellness attention to Native Americans during a clip of Wall Street bailouts seems excessively dearly-won. we should acknowledge that we presently spend 30 per centum more per capita on wellness attention in American prisons than on Native Americans. whose ascendants aided the Pilgrims. fed the soldiers stop deading in Valley Forge. helped Lewis and Clark research our state. and proudly hoisted the flag on Iwo Jima ( Rodgers 4 ) . It is pathetic that the Native Americans. who have helped many people. are put behind captives that have done incorrect.

Health attention is one thing that should be offered to all no affair what their ethnicity is. Many Native Americans are incognizant of chances that are available due to the isolation that they face on reserves. In 1992 merely 78 per centum of Native Americans received a high school sheepskin. This makes Native Americans the least likely of all minority groups. besides Hispanics. to obtain a high school grade. One chief ground for Native Americans being unable to obtain a high school sheepskin is holding to go forth school to acquire a occupation.

If a member of their household faces an unwellness or disablement that causes them to be unable to work. the younger members of the household are traveling to necessitate to assist supply for the household. In many instances there is non a disablement or unwellness. Native Americans have really hapless rewards and are unable to last on merely two incomes. Merely 11 per centum of Native Americans continues on to college after high school and receives a grade. Bing a minority pupil automatically gives Native Americans a disadvantage.

Parents of minority young person tend to hold lower degrees of instruction. and this is straight linked to what sort of public presentation their kid will hold in school ( Donelan 4 ) . In 1995 Native Americans had an overpowering rate of unemployment at 32 per centum. Since Native Americans are likely to obtain lower degrees of instruction this puts them at greater hazard for unemployment ( Marshall 3 ) . In today’s society many businesss require some type of formal instruction. For many Native Americans the lone option they have is to hold a occupation instead than a calling. Being isolated on a reserve causes.

Native Americans to be unable to entree many of the well-paying occupations that are offered to the non-Native American population. In 1995 an mean one-year income for a Native American family was ten-thousand dollars ( Marshall 6 ) . Many Native American families include drawn-out households. so this would be the income to back up a really big family. A few Native American folks have begun opening casinos in hopes to go successful and maintain their heritage alive. Foxwoods is the first Native American casino to be opened. it is besides the most successful casino resort.

Mohegan Sun. another casino resort. follows near behind Foxwoods in their success. Foxwoods casino was created to assist salvage the Mashantucket Pequot Nation from holding their reserve taken from them and turned into a province park. In 1992 Foxwoods Resort Casino opened making about 13 thousand occupations for members on the Mashantucket Pequot Nation and members of environing towns. Not merely are the casinos profiting the folks. they are besides profiting the communities they reside in. Foxwoods has an one-year gross of over one billion dollars.

The casino is besides place to a Native American Museum that has become a prima cultural attractive force in Connecticut. There are several other Native American owned and run casino resorts throughout the United States that have been successful such as: Mohegan Sun. Turning Stone in New York. Barona in California. Sac and Fox in Iowa. Silver Star in Mississippi. this is merely to call a few. Casinos have helped draw many Native American tribes out of poorness and continue their heritage through the decor of their casinos.

There have been a few casinos that have failed due to hapless locations. unrealistic outlooks. unrealized promises. high debt to income ration. and hapless direction through the tribe’s members and the direction companies hired to assist. Now that many of these folks are out of poorness they are utilizing their income to make more chances for immature tribal members. Many of their financess are being dedicated to instruction for all Native Americans. including college. Several scholarships have been created to guarantee farther instruction for those who seek it.

Bet oning has besides created more chance to continue their tribe’s history and civilization ( Nykiel 51-56 ) Even though Native Americans and non-Native Americans are on the same continent there are important cultural differences that can make a barrier between the two different civilizations. Non-Native Americans need to hold a really strong thrust to assist Native Americans since there are so many barriers. The Native Americans being isolated on the reserves keeps the two different civilizations apart.

The fact that transit from the reserve is really hard to obtain causes Native Americans to be unwilling to do the attempt to go forth the reserves. Native Americans have really different beliefs when it comes to handling wellness jobs. They besides handle a individual that commits a felony really otherwise than how non-Native Americans do. These differences can do it hard for non-Native Americans to assist the Native Americans. more preparation is required to be able to understand how the Native Americans react to some state of affairss.

Native Americans would instead hold relationships with persons than a group or organisation. so one on one interaction is really of import. Rather than Native Americans working with several different persons it is good to work with merely one and organize a relationship. Language differences besides causes jobs when seeking aid from non-Native Americans. Some Native Americans speak English as their 2nd linguistic communication and experience comfy talking in their native linguistic communication.

There are many differences that non-Native Americans need to take into history before they can seek and assist Native Americans. sometimes a individual is un-willing to take the excess attempt to derive the cognition needed to assist the Native Americans ( Gorospe 96 ) . John F. Kennedy one time stated “for a topic worked and reworked so frequently in novels. gesture images. and telecasting. American Indians remain likely the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of all” ( Donelan 3 ) . Although this is true. it besides takes attempt from non-Native Americans to seek and pass on with the Native American civilization.

It can non be assumed that if aid is needed it will ever be sought. Native Americans have had their economic resources taken from them by the non-Native American civilizations. they have been driven off their land. and have been given no regard. Some Native Americans may be intimidated or un-trusting since the United States Government has broken so many pacts with them. The United States Government needs to do the attempt to assist the fighting Native American civilization draw themselves out of poorness.

President Obama has vowed to stop the disregard of the past two hundred old ages that the Native Americans have endured. The Native Americans have given Obama the name “One who helps people throughout the land” . Obama has signed a memoranda that is saying that the authorities is to discourse with the bing Native American folk to seek and help them. President Obama has appointed an Indian from the Cherokee Nation to go an advisor on Indian issues. he has besides appointed a member on the Rosebud Sioux folk to be the caput of Indian Health Services.

Hopefully some advancement will be made to assist the bing Native American folk become more comfortable in today’s society ( Nasaw 1 ) . Alcoholism has become a major job in the Native American civilization. Many people. non merely Native Americans. position intoxicant as an flight from their jobs. The fact that a bulk of Native Americans are in poorness and have really few chances offered to them has a batch to make with the job of alcohol addiction on many reserves. To work out the job of alcohol addiction. Native Americans believe in a perspiration Lodge ceremonial instead than alkies anonyms meetings.

A perspiration Lodge ceremonial is used to obtain religious purification through supplication. many members of the folk participate to seek and sublimate the individual ( Donelan 2 ) . Life on Native American reserves can be really violent. Harmonizing to statistics from 1992 to 1996. one hundred and 50 Native Americans were murdered per twelvemonth ( Donelan 1 ) . Native Americans have a big sum of choler towards the people that have caused them to be in poorness that they are let go ofing their choler and doing injury to their ain people. Poverty among Native American’s is one of the most unmarked signifiers of poorness.

Native Americans were the really last to be granted the right to vote. it is clip for something to be done to alter the manner the Native Americans have been treated. Many people were incognizant that November was Native American Indian Heritage Month and the twenty-four hours after Thanksgiving is Native American Heritage twenty-four hours ( Rodgers 2 ) . I am certain that cipher celebrated or gave thanks for the many forfeits the Native Americans have made for the United States. Any jobs Native Americans face can someway be related to the fact that the United States Government was unable to follow through with their pact to draw them out of poorness.

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