===I delivered on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. I can attest that I never saw a sight like that. For the most part, they are good and decent people in spite of the federal government’s efforts to destroy them via handouts.===
So true, I have lived in the 4 corners almost 50yrs and as the reservation pics show is that the ‘rez’ is the death spiral to tribes. All handouts, no work. Truly native ghettos by fed and tribal govts by design. The Navajos, a LOT of them refuse to live on the rez and move off, are employed, buy houses, go to school, incorporate into the rest of the surrounding population. You can’t ask for a harder working and prouder population than the rez native that has escaped the hellholes made for them.
Grew up in NM.
Amen to your comment.
As a child in Farmington NM, dad often did not have money to let us go to the Allan Theater, so he would load us in the car, go to a bar just south of main, and let us watch the drunk Navajos get arrested.
When I lived there as an adult in 1973-1977, the Navajos were still getting rip roaring drunk. Every Sunday morning there were empty bottles of whiskey in the park on Main street. They had their own room at the Copper Penny. Dizzy Land was my hang out.