On Monday in Week 5, group 3 gave their presentation over the Indian Resilience and Rebuilding. Their chapter covered a few topics that caught my attention very easily one of the best ones in my opinion was when they started talking about the poverty. I knew that the Indians went through poverty basically still to this day but I learned that 55% of the Indians made $200 dollars per year. That is no type of money you should have to live off of as a adult especially for a year. Also not even considering all of the damage and trouble we have done to them from stealing their resources, moving them out of their homes for the Americans to have room to live and countless settlements that we have always just turned the other way about. I believe that the poverty could have been solved such a long time ago but us as Americans haven’t seem to get the fact that Indians are also humans too and should not be treated as if they don’t matter. In my opinion I think we should try and reach an agreement or treaty, one that the Americans would actually follow through with to where we could repay that tribe or community that constantly allows us to use their resources.
jcramos July 10, 2018
Sean, I am happy to see you caught on to the group presentation about the poverty. You mentioned that 55% of the Native Americans made only around $200 dollars in the 1930s. I calculated the amount that would be in the current day and it would only be around $3,700 US. That is not very much, that is literally only making 300 dollars in a month and having to pay off land and having to feed family. Seems impossible to do, but the natives found a way to make it work for themselves and their community.