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[Striper69]

I am too lazy to look for it, but there have been academic/scientific studies done dealing with social issues on reservations that do support your personal experiences. I am not sure how conditions have changed with the large influx of casino money over the last couple of decades, but I suspect as with other areas where casinos are legal, the advertised benefits to the societies during the legalization fight have seldom been really successfully translated to the lower ends of those societies.
There are also some genetic issues within different races that relate to metabolism and body chemistries as well as susceptibility to various diseases that are very real - biologically we are not all created equally within races nor across races. Personally I have a hereditary propensity toward diabetes (type II) that duly arrived 10 years ago thanks to my mother's family genetics. And that happens to be a variant that males are much more susceptible to than females.

It's also sad that the so-called "Indian casinos" have not really benefited all Native Tribes as people may think. My own "tribe" the Omaha Nation started one up in the '90s and they had good intentions. They really thought the idea was going somewhere. I worked at it for about a year and lived on the reservation for a few months.
There's nothing to do on the reservation. There was trash all over the place and few paved roads. Only a couple of stores. The nearest city was over 30 miles away where you could shop, go see a movie or go out to eat.
I may move back to the area when I retire and buy a ranch or home out in the country. I like to hunt and fish and would drive to a city if i wanted to do city things again.
The people who ran the casino for the tribe swindled them out of money (big surprise, right?) and it closed but may be open again for all I know. I got some money from the tribe when it first started out but haven't benefited at all from it since I quit working there and got a job back east working with the military.
The Mohegan Sun and Mohegan tribe and the tribe that runs the other casino in CT. seem to have done very well but they're the exception from what I've seen. Most of the Native people who were living back east in the frontier days got slaughtered or if they were lucky assimilated into white society one way or another. History books won't really go into detail about that though.

 

[Striper69]

Russians...

http://article.wn.com/view/WNAT576C0609A2A5220602CA0865FEE407D6/

Russians...


Ha! Now they're saying we're Russians, eh? First we're "Indians" now we're "Russians".

Funny...

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

Well, everybody has to be from someplace...we all need to keep our Berings Strait.