Quote Originally Posted by Wakizashi
Have you ever been to a reservation? These places are the dirtiest, poorest, and most crime ridden places in the USA. The Crow Indian Reservation outside of Billings qualifies as the poorest place in the USA, and just by looking at it you'll see exactly why. Yeah, we were taught that we weren't be nice the Natives in School, but they don't ever tell you to what extent, you have to see it for your own eyes and you can. The very idea that the Natives Must stay in these dirt poor hovels, without guarantee of a job, or electricity, or clean water just so that they can get a Federal Aid Check every 2 months is just barely enough for them to stay, because most of them are afraid that they'll lose what little shreds of the Cultural Pride they have left if they leave... not exactly what I would call "Financial aid and benefits".
I think we're talking on two different levels.

Like Lemur said, I certainly am not arguing that the Native Americans are treated well or that the US has or is repairing the damage. Im just saying that the US government does not deny what was done to them and in fact it has become an increasingly large part of American History classes. I remember in school there was a whole chapter devoted to the treatment of the slaves, the Native Americans and the immigrant Asian workers, along with descriptions of the treatment of the Indians in other chapters.