What was missed is that outside every Indian reservation I’ve ever seen is a stream of trash, mostly empty alcohol containers. I’ve always figured a update of the ad showing the road at a reservation would be highly appropriate.
Agreed.
I worked for an engineering company
tasked with upgrading reservations’
heating, water, and infrastructure.
Their past ways are highly ingrained.
They would chop holes in the roofs of
newly built housing to let the smoke
escape from a fire pit built in their
living rooms.
Alcohol is their biggest nemesis.
New vehicle dealers are hesitant selling
vehicles (especially pickups) to any
Indian, as they being a sovergn nation,
can take that truck to the reservation
and can halt any chance of repossession
for non payment.
Their children (in some cases) are attending
schools built from mud and sticks in
typical hogan style.
Since they have lost all pride, trash
piles up, and their neighborhoods soon
morph into something that looks ghetto.
I agree. In every reservation area that we’ve been in or near was trash everywhere. Maybe the Native Americans need to clean up their own back yards before they lecture the rest of us. We were stunned the first time we traveled up to Glacier National Park. On the east side of the park in the “reservation” area, it was so heavy with trash (mostly empty beer containers) that when I asked a park ranger about it he said it was Indian land and they didn’t want US government “taking care” of their land. Don’t know if that was the whole story but the evidence was overwhelming. And that wasn’t the only reservation we saw this way. So very sad.