Native American Reservations?
Question by Sean: Native american Reservations?
Give me facts on them, What % of people graduate college on a reservation? What % of people are alcoholics, Gamblers, in poverty, Etc.?
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Answer by Sweetwater
There are many different reservations and there isn’t enough space to list all of them and all the different statistics. Not all natives on reservations are suffering, but a great many, too many, are. Here is a list of facts on just the Lakota Reservation’s in S.D.
Just a list of facts:
Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS factor).
Lakota death rate is the highest in the United States.
The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300 percent higher than the U.S. Average.
Teenage suicide rate is 150 percent higher than the U.S national average for this group.
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
More than half the Reservation’s adults battle addiction and disease.
Alcoholism affects 8 in 10 families.
INCARCERATION
Indian youth incarceration rate is 40 percent higher than whites.
In South Dakota, 21 percent of state prisoners were Native.
Indians have the second largest state prison incarceration rate in the nation.
DISEASE
The Tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is approx 800 percent higher than the U.S. national average.
Cervical cancer is 500 percent higher than the U.S. national average.
The rate of diabetes is 800 percent higher than the U.S. national average.
POVERTY
Median income is approximately $ 2,600 to $ 3,500 per year.
97 percent of Lakota people live below the poverty line.
Many families cannot afford heating oil, wood or propane and many residents use ovens to heat their homes.
HOUSING
Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage while 40 percent lack electricty.
60 percent of Reservation families have no telephone.
60 percent of housing is infected with potentially fatal black molds.
There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (many only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Unemployment rates on our reservations is 85 percent or higher.
THREATENED CULTURE
Only 14 percent of the Lakota population can speak Lakota language.
The language is not being shared inter-generationally, today, the average Lakota speaker is 65 years old.
The Lakota language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction.
These are the worst of statistics. This is not to say there isn’t beauty, love, family, culture and heritage, but that sometimes gets lost in the poverty and abuse.
Source(s):
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/
Answer by dowhanawi
try some positive facts too. What percent speak their language, what percent run a home business. Which rez’s have successful business like casinos and eco tourism. How many have their own successful heling lodges and programs. It may not be a great life financially but it isn’t all bad. Sorry I don’t have stats but I agree make a phone call, and prehaps take the time to showcase one of the successful rez’s along side one of the struggling ones.
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