You know what,, and God love em. But it’s way obvious. Chinese in the west were treated horribly. But they were abandoned. Today they prosper.
If an indian family could own property instead of holding in common, they could build equity, they could live the American dream. They are denied the single greatest engine of wealth, home ownership.
The res should be large enough for cultural preservation. Not to dominate all the real estate. Tribal governments are corrupt, and the Feds treat them like children. The system was designed in the 1870s to imprison and control a population an keep them out of mainstream society. Big surprise, it’s doing PRECISELY that.
The sad thing though, is that most indian activists push for more extreme journeys into “ward” status.