I have a friend who is well acquainted with the Indians up there. I don’t wish to hurt anyone’s feeling on FR, but he says that many of the homes on the reservation are filthy. Crime is rampant. It’s worse than a ghetto and probably even worse than Sharia law as the tribes hire outside prosecutors to do the dirty work.
I am not surprised that they tried to man handle things.
American Indians need to wise up and stay away from the
alcohol. Many of my ancestors on both sides of the family
were American Indians & I’ve just mostly limited any
consumption of alcohol to a small glass of red wine maybe
twice a week (per the Biblical admonition to “take a little
wine for thy stomach’s sake & thine oft infirmities”.)
Many of my relatives were alcoholics, some of whom are
deceased due to liver disorders, etc. - IF they would rather
live in a teepee than on a reservation, OK by me.
I grew up next to your reservation and I know that when you get your house for free you really don’t care about it. In the winter when it got cold they would bust up the furniture, doors, cabinets, wood trim, etc. and burn them in the fireplace. Also, instead of taking out the trash, they would throw it down into the basement and, when the basement was full, they would move. It wasn’t all of them though, either their house was extremely neat and clean or it was a disaster with not much inbetween.
They were usually good-natured and friendly unless they were in the long decline of alcoholism.
I have been on many reservations.
I will never romanticize the paleolithic savages that live there.
For lack of alcohol, they huff cans of Aquanet. I didn’t know they even still made Aquanet!
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It is a third world country when you go onto the res. Junk cars, junk washers, dryers, refrigerators and occupied junk trailers. People living in a junk trailer with a hole cut in the wall so the horses can drink from the bathtub. It goes on and on but the trashy beggars have negated any protest they might make.