Native Americans :)
1. About 50% of the Native Indian population
lives on federal reservations. The majority of the reservations are situated
west of the Mississippi River, and the Indians continue to live there to
maintain their traditions.
2. Some of the social challenges the
Native Americans face are unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse.
High rates of diabetes and heart disease are also a concern. Some of the
possible causes of this is that since they live in reservations they are “cut
off” from the rest of the world, one of the reasons for their high alcohol
problem is that many of them have had a rough childhood, neither does it help
that Native Americans have a very low tolerance for alcohol.
3. Limitations on tribal powers of
self-government include the same limitations applicable to states; for example,
neither tribes nor states have the power to make war, engage in foreign
relations, or coin money (this includes paper currency).
4. Native Americans rights point out
that the US Federal Government's claim to recognize the "sovereignty"
of Native American peoples falls short.
5. The BIA states that its
responsibility when it comes to Indian lands, is for the “administration and
management of 55,700,000 acres (225,000
km2) of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians,
Indian tribes , and Alaskan Natives.”
