In the 60's & 70's, the money, entitlement structure came to the villages. Good and bad resulted from this. Many of the men of the village (who suffered from alcoholism which caused all the abuse problems in the village)were pushed aside and women took over the roles of village leaders. This occurred because the money made them less dependent on the men. Previous to this, when a father was raping all his dauughters, the mother couldn't stop it. The father would be sent off to prison and family would starve. Once the money started flowing, things changed. The down side was the entire village became lazy in a way. They started believing that the money flow swas just how the govt worked. Now they just expect dollars to appear with no accountability. The Indians refuse to address this issue and it's leading to their destruction as a people from the combined affects of wwelfare & alcohol.
Indians are pretty decent sharing, non-judgemental, fair, easy going people; unlike us greedy white people. They have lost everything they started with 100 years back. If the govt is ever forced to set things right, treaties, ect; it will break the bank. Trouble is they will go extinct before that ever happens; genocide actually.
Most Indians I know never even vote; they kinda want left alone do what they always have done and never pay any attention to fed laws if it goes against traditional knowledge and the way they do things; feds can't lock them all up. Us Whites could learn a little from the Indians 50 years removed from the stoneage.
Thanks for the information. I suspected that was the case.
I saw a documentary years ago, so long ago it was in black and white, that told a similar story in a different environment. It was about a small Polynesian island that the U.S. had occupied during WWII. The were an industrious and happy culture. As part of the deal for use of the island the U.S. agreed to provide for them forever. As you note, after a few years they were a fat, unhappy and sloven society.
However, they weren’t alcoholic. That seems to be a curse unique to the indigenous people of North America.