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The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indians

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Throughout the course of history, Native Americans have been not been treated fairly by the U.S. government. According to the documentary, Hidden America, Diane Sawyer states that the poorest population is the Indian Reservation from South Dakota named Pine Ridge. At this reservation, the majority of the Indians rely on the government for money and commodities. Commodities are the food promised by the US government after the US seized 7.3 millions acres of Lakota land. With this land, the government slayed sixteen million buffalo in just fifty years. Because of this, many Indians are not given the opportunities they would like to have. For example, the Indians on Pine Ridge would rather be given more opportunities and jobs rather than be given money. The Indians fell that since they are only given money that it is practically impossible for jobs and business to be created. In conclusion, the Natives in Pine Ridge do not want to be dependent on government but be given the chance to work and have placed to go like the movies, the mall, banks, and Laundromats. …show more content…

government has effected the reservation. The high school at the Indian Reservation Junior first attending, the education given was extremely lacking. Junior’s teacher, Mr. P, forgets to come to school even though he lives in a one-bedroom trailer directly behind the school. Also, when Junior was given his geometry book, the last person it belonged to was Agnes Adams, his mother. Junior then states, “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.” Junior’s 30-year-old geometry book symbolizes the quality of education at the reservation but more importantly the poverty of the Spokane tribe. In the end, this shows the read that even the U.S. government doesn’t help one of the poorest schools in the

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