The lakota has for decades brought forth complaint's of the injustice directly and aggressively impose by the US government. The fact the government bides for time that the natives will die out is clear. the fact that every time there is hope again the government play's cat and mouse. This is why it is important for the international community to step in and protect theses once proud peoples. they do in in africa before they do it in America where the wealth has been stolen.

It is true. It sounds like "We do not need you, but your land and natural resource are very atractive to us". This news from Yahoo today. Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division. The gangs' stock-in-trade includes drug distribution, prostitution and theft, and they're only growing more sophisticated, said the RCMP. "The gangs are brought on by poverty," said RCMP Sgt. Merle Carpenter, who holds the aboriginal gangs file with the National Aboriginal Policing Services. "It's all about education and employment. If we don't get youth educated and we don't get them... participating in the workforce we're going to continue to watch this deterioration." Koptie notes there is vast mineral wealth in Canada's North, such as the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, which can provide jobs for many now-destitute aboriginals. "The issue is how are we going to share the resources and how are we going to make education a priority," said Koptie, who notes schools on reserves get half the funding of schools off reserve. "The federal government is responsible for education on reserve and they're fallen so far behind, they've dropped the ball majorly on this." Calls to the federal Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs for comment were not immediately returned.

many of the indians are doing very well now due to the casinos.many are making it hard for their own people to get redgistered.they share what comes from the casino. if there is one out of 100 tribes doing poorly no one feels the need to step in and help. same as everything and everybody else. if it helps me.....

Actually that's a stereotype and a misconception. Most of the tribes that do allow for casinos on tribal land have very little money after paying for tribal police, fire fighter helthcare for tribal members taxes(ironically), lobying . And other social services that very little is left afterwards for housing and other betterment projects. Whatever is left is then circulated to the tribal members but it depends from tribe to tribe. More over that does not negate the fact that the united states government still exploits all natural resources and still denies all things outlined in the treaties, or even in their own constitution. Simple things such as freedom of religion and the respect of our religious sites and burial grounds are still things we don't have. So casinos are a way for some tribes to seek self determination just like many other nations do with oil and tecnology or WAR.

The story fails to consider the entire history of the United States and how it was built upon the bodies of millions of dead Indians/Native Americans/Name of their specific tribe. Every battle of the so-called Indian Wars happened in the backyard of every Indian's forefathers. The land that is left as a purported "Sovereign Homeland" (reservation) is land that no white man wanted because there wasn't gold or farmland back in the day. The change that occurred for Indians from living a traditional lifestyle which sustained them by hunting and gathering happened in a blink of an eye. In South Dakota the tribes were told the wasicu (white people) were moving through and only the lands as wide as the wagon wheels were needed for passage to California (Gold Rush of 1849) and Oregon (more supposed free land for non-Indians). Treaties, which have authority based in the Constitution of the United States, were supposedly negotiated and broken as soon as gold or other prized commodity to the non-Indians was found. Again, the land base tribes have left is what non-Indians did not want. The Prairie Winds Casino for the Oglala of Pine Ridge is actually nice, but small. The market for gamblers is small and the Oglala have to compete with Deadwood, SD (the legendary Old West town that sprung up after gold was discovered in the Black Hills in violation of the treaties). South Dakota has legalized gambling everywhere mainly in the form of "video lottery" machines. The playing field is not level. Non-Indian American simply tells Indians it's time to become white. Indians just want to be Indians.

I agree with the injustices done to Native Americans. There's no doubt about that. But let's be fair RT. I've been to Siberia. I've been to Tuva, Yakutia and other places and seen the poverty and misery that the native peoples of Russia live in. Their land was no less occupied and taken by the Slavs. No one is mentioning here how Stalin "annexed" Tuva in the 40s. What's worse, when these poor people come to Moscow or St. Petersburg, even though they are Russian citizens, born here, they risk getting attacked by radical nationalists who would scream "Russia for Russians." How about a story about that eh?

Enough of the reservation stuff. It should have been done away with long ago. You can't have it all ways! Either you are going into the 21st century with the rest of us, or you are not. The US gov. has done the indian people NO favors by seeing to it they remained on the outside looking in. The Gov. has created a people that are now dependent on the Gov. for their survival. They should have been integrated 50 years ago. What was to gain by letting these people live in a time warp? What next... teach them to make buggy whips? Indians just want to be indians? Great. Go back to hunting the deer, live in the teepees and quite whining. And while you are at it, don't forget to trade those pickups in for a pinto pony. Time to move forward.

Casino's do not create wealth. They do not generate wealth. They simply tax the stupid. They contribute nothing to society nor do anything to advance it. They're nothing more than an economic vacuum. Reservations are just an excuse to play a victim and live off the hard work of others. When the Native Americans cast aside the liberal "race pimp" politicians that smother them and start focusing on providing goods and services of substance then maybe, just maybe, they'll move out of poverty like the rest of us of "Native American" decent.

Human, who do not want to help another human, will look for..words, his knowlage and so on in order to avoid facing his own egoism of I, ME,MINE selfimportants, anger, FEAR!!. People will do and say crazy things to avoid their own soul!! C.G. Jung. If your eys can see through your heart, you do not need your knowlage (head). Knowlage is not wisdom!!! Just HELP onother human!!!That's all. Moste simpel things are the most difficult. Be like a mother, father to all humans. Give is to have love, talk and do nothing is FEAR!!!