“Don’t forget about us.” A horesback ride to the poorest place in the United States

9NEWS STORYTELLERS: Pine Ridge, South Dakota is the poorest place in the United States. It's an Indian Reservation where families live in abject poverty. A group rode on horseback from Boulder, Colorado to Pine Ridge to raise money and awareness for the people who live there.
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[@bernardprouty1390]

Drove through there once. I have no good answers. Noticed it is isolated so far from anything that it is a far to a get descent grocery and or start a business. Prayers and respect to a very proud and nice people.

[@CoffeeCartel666]

So sad, such a strong beautiful culture, destroyed by greed.. love from ireland 🇮🇪

[@wellingtonvarela7626]

It's hard to believe that the US government allowed those real Americans going through this shame hardship very sad for I love the natives Americans I wish I could help break my heart love from Brazil 🇧🇷. Shame on you politicians

[@stands1971]

This why I left the rez some 20+ yrs ago and made a life for my kids a better life than rez life, if y'all wanted to leave the rez, u can and u will find a way to move forward and not backwards

[@heathert5455]

My grandpa did the same some 70 or 80 years ago. My grandpa was 1st nation Ojibwe from the Swan Creek tribe (Saginaw, Swan Creek and Black River bands of Chippewa Indians). He was a survivor of the Indian Boarding School too. He left his rez in the 1930s and took odd jobs to make ends meet (he was even a bootlegger for Al Capone for a short time). He told people that he was Italian to get work. He met and married my grandma, who was the daughter of Danish immigrants, and they had seven children together. I was told that grandpa adopted grandma into the tribe prior to marrying her and the two remained married until death parted them. From what I was told, grandpa was Cheif of the Swan Creek tribe and his mother is the rightful owner of most of the land in Michigan. Grandpa's mother was named Annamae Dagg and her mother was named Julia Fisher. We are no longer a Federally Recognized tribe but I was told that it is in the works to be changed. Grandpa did his best NOT to be an Indian, but I don't blame him since he lived during the time when Indians could be killed because they were not considered human beings. I think that he was also worried about what would happen to his children if it was discovered that he was American Indian. I was told that grandpa had crooked fingers from them being broken by his Boarding School teachers because he refused to write in English, he had two sisters who were repeatedly raped and he had a brother who was sodomized during their time in the School. I was also told that grandpa's mother was also raped during her time in the school when she was young. I am sure that there are other things that I haven't been told. But, grandpa did a HELL of a lot better once he left the rez and he was able to support himself and his family. None of his children were kidnapped or taken by force and thrown in a boarding school (unlike some of his neices and nephews) and he lived a relatively long life. Anyways, sorry for rambling.

[@m.k.s.7417]

Up to you, but maye; you could - "Invest back into: "The Reservation(s)"" and "support all that [very] comm-UNITY"?? >>M.K.S.

[@m.k.s.7417]

**Maybe ="giving Back!!"??**

[@sleeplessaquarius]

@@heathert5455 Dont be sorry for rambling. This is your story. & This is your history. I am sorry for what horrific things that your family has been though. It is important that these stories are told & shared. You should write a book. Reading your story was very interesting.

[@texanstry2027]

@@sleeplessaquarius shut up

[@brycefarmer3902]

That saleswoman who was selling clothes for children and has had drops of tears during the interview has got to me! 💔😢

[@nobodysbaby5048]

This sign is right across the street from a liquor store not half a mile from the Pine Ridge boundary. When I drove past there were literally indigenous people lying on the side of the road. I understand their anger & I will never forget their kindness & humor toward a stranger. Thank you for all you taught me.

[@Twsuf1]

The white man purposely has those liquor stores there for a reason, still committing genocide waiting to take over the reservation land. All those responsible for the haneous atrocities toward American Indian life will have to answer to the Creator of mankind who gave life

[@nobodysbaby5048]

@@Twsuf1 I think it's just greed on the part of the store owner but all sins start with selfishness, really. And my heart goes out to the Pine Ridge families. It's another hardship they really don't deserve. I was in WAVI in 2016 and the Sioux Nation showed great compassion towards me.

[@nobodysbaby5048]

@Donnell Okafor you're welcome to your opinion but it's well known that indigenous populations are especially vulnerable to addictions & they're losing many of their kids. I wonder if you would feel the same if it were your kid & the dealer was just down the street. And finally, just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. He could've put that store anywhere. I have a lot more to say but I've a feeling it would be wasted breath.

[@kalebind]

OGLALA WARRIORS TRUE WARRIOR SPIRIT EVERYWHERE

[@nobodysbaby5048]

@@kalebind 🤭

[@sleeplessaquarius]

Thank you for sharing this video & for sharing your story :)

[@waterfall643]

Hard to leave the Rez, harder to stay

[@johnyac60]

I wanna help these people, but I wanna give to them directly. It’s so discouraging donating to these funds that benefit the ceos more than the actual people. If anyone has direct links for payment to this man, lmk

[@dannyshipley7590]

I wish I could tell u the answers....I to live on a reservation with little....but count my blessings every morning waking up to my wife and kids...... U sound like a kind person who doesn't wish ill on anyone......bless ur heart

[@sammyventimiglia9679]

@@dannyshipley7590 I'm glad you're interested in giving. I know everyone in the video. LMK if you're still interested and I can connect you directly to them.

[@HunterPearson12]

@@sammyventimiglia9679 Aside from cash, what can be done or given to the people you know there to help?

[@spellerlittlewing]

I agree

[@charlesbullghost5491]

The crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD is also in the same very poor conditions. As pine ridge Oglala sioux Indian reservation. In Central housing there's place called death Row at Fort Thompson SD. Many people died of alcoholism going back many years. From 1890 to 1931 we actually have our own are very sad tragic the brutal Cheney rush massacre site an a warriors victory song charge of Apiril 17th through the 18th 1931! It actually started In a long narrow valley just below the prairie land country along the beautiful Missouri River. Over a hundred white civilians intruders arrived there with guns and rifles very unannounced! They seriously wanted to take away the hunkpati Dakota sioux people's traditional reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and our rich fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. They would kill all the entire of little over sixty hunkpati Dakota sioux indian encampment of poor inccent people there! The very proud Dakota sioux Indian didn't want to leave their own reservation homelands along the beautiful Missouri River! The Cheney rush brutal massacre, the second sand creek massacre! The American civilians intruders wouldn't their fire arms weapons! They would actually carry sharpen axes and sharpe butcher knives for their own heinous act of extremely evil vailenest guilty murderous plans! Very sadly tragic story! The elders were young children at the time saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there will hiding a safe distance away. Many years later they told the story well crying and wipt of the tragic massacre at Cheney rush tragedy! The Dakota sioux Indian men also heard of the very sad tragic story of their own love ones who wrongfully murdered there! The Dakota sioux Indian men hearts were broken from the lost poor innocent lives they will never get back! The very next day over three hundred angered Dakota sioux Indian warriors were ready to fight against the American guilty murderous intruders! An many more warriors were arriving there! Iron Nation's kul wicasa oyate Lakota sioux Indian warriors may have assisted in the fierce fighting to! Near the massacre site the American civilians we're setting up a camp site along the shores of the beautiful Missouri River. Someone ran to them an told they would be facing a huge massive large numbers of warriors coming towards them from a great distance away! The small Christian community town stephan SD were shocked to see a large massive numbers of brave warriors riding on their beautiful horses swiftly passing by an their great journey to the great impressive fighting battlefield moment! After a swift running battle skirmish into a full bloody conflict probably more Americans civilians were killed there! An several brave sioux Indian warriors would lose their lives in the very intense bloody conflict! Dust would rise up from the horses hooves made a great impressive very great battlefield moment scene! The American civilians couldn't take any more fierce fighting! The rest of the defeated wounded weakened surviving American civilians intruders escape or fled back across the reservation border lands! To their own ranches and towns never wanting to take back the hunkpati Dakota sioux people's traditional reservation Buffalo hunting grounds and our rich fertile farm lands along the beautiful Missouri River. The last forgotten great brave victory of retribution for the lost poor innocent lives at the brutal Cheney rush massacre site! The massacre victory of Apiril 17th through the 18th of 1931 is still there today half a mile northwest from the town stephan SD along the highway to the capital of Pierre SD. North to the two small rolling hills. The one hill on the left side as a great resistance for our native American indigenous people of North America. In spring time of the great depression of apiril of 1931. The American civilians would instigated the terrible troubles would trigger the start of the Buffalo County war or the Great war for the northern part of the reservation. Someone from from our reservation would actually take camera pictures of the massacre site and the secret mass grave site. Many of our Dakota and Lakota sioux warriors would fight bravery in the great war of world War two. My historical information for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.

[@michaelcapporta8222]

Shame on our government

[@_6666-]

washtey kola , stay positive stay strong ✌️

[@mgmassey174]

Miyutake Oyasin Bless u all Prayers

[@rebeccagraves3137]

Well they want modern amenities but still want to live the old way. The old way was without running water or electricity. Even if they could travel to water it might be contaminated. There is absolutely no reason if we dig wells in Africa that we can't provide better for American indigenous people. They have to deal with the alcohol and drugs and violence themselves. Indigenous women are much more likely to suffer violence but it's usually from their own people. Not everything can be blamed in colonization. Don't drink, don't do drugs don't hit your women.

[@gd1889]

Holy shit, I needed to see this, to remember I blessed I am.

[@Lepercon777]

If I ever get to the right people I will not forget you….keep up the good journey…

[@alyssasaager863]

I am Oglala Sioux.I want everything for everyone.

[@jadebrownbull4873]

Most of my life is growing up in Rapid city here in South Dakota. One of the most racist small city in this western part of the state. There are times in my life that id wish I was from the rez and not rapid. That was back then when I was thinking like that, then I realize that all reservations across the US are meant to fail natives in western society. Natives especially Lakotas whether they are from the rez or small cities and rural towns know damn well this state never treat them as equal.

[@everettduncan7543]

Is western ND and WY like that too?

[@sakuyaizayoi5918]

Me and my father are Lakota, I wasn't born on the rez but my dad was. When we went to Rapid City to visit my auntie and her family I experienced first hand racism. We were walking across town and stopped to sit down for a moment on a public sidewalk. Some motel owner or someone came out to spout a bunch of racist comments to us literally for stopping for forty seconds. It was highly unpleasant, I can't imagine what it's like for you dealing with people being assholes everyday. Either way I hope things improve for you.

[@goodbuffalo811]

Rapid City will always be Rapid City, the difference is gonna be the have natives run for public office and get the natives to vote them in. That good ol’ boy system will never change.

[@agent3015]

Dave is the man, thanks!

[@dalethebelldiver7740]

He might try riding through the wealthy neighborhoods on horse back collecting rent.

[@dalethebelldiver7740]

Seems like someone got the joke.

[@davidlyons6235]

Brilliant

[@zaarkhananal7165]

With the interest the fee would be in the trillions

[@rgraji5649]

All that beautiful land. Why cant it be farmed to feed America and bring in money for Pine Ridge to build new homes. How can these people live like this. Unbelievable.

[@timgreen2426]

Because the government won't let them.

[@quattro4468]

Because it would create an oversupply of food and prices would have to drop. If it drops futures contracts in the stock markets lose value and investors lose. The govt already hands out a shitload in subsidies for overproducing farms to dump their crops. So any new business would fight an uphill battle unless backed by very powerfull people. And i mean billionaires not politicians lol. The new market will be high tech farms created by amazon and others they can do this because they will turn their inhouse farms into ipo's that can be traded in the stick market.

[@jbelme1]

Once you put a plow into prairie soil, it’s never the same. There’s a wagon trail in the prairie behind mother-in-law’s house that hasn’t seen a wheel since the twenties. It still looks fresh.

[@jbelme1]

Tim Green Indians don’t farm. They collect a gov’t check.

[@philxdev]

@@quattro4468 and there we are made believe that only industrial farming with lots of chemicals like round up can upkeep the demand for agricultural produce etc.. yeah right. there is a demand for locally and organically grown foods and people are actually willing to pay good money for it.. I´d say some goats and sheep would do a lot better here than cows, in combination with a dairy farm producing high quality milk products and maybe a small manufacture facility to create clothing made out of natural wool.. it doesn´t always have to be high yield industrial stuff that makes good money. becoming sustainable would be more than enough.

[@minniemouska4320]

It seems to me they would be better off living in the traditional ancient way in a tipi than in a camper.why doesnt their tribal council talk to Harrahs and get a casino.it improved life in Cherokee res and t he same for the Choctaws!The Lakota have suffered the worst of all because they fought the government. I think the US BIA could do more for them they have done so much for other tribes. They are still punishing them for the little big horn and it needs to STOP! These people need HELP , jobs and housing and Close down that liquor town White Clay.

[@poison03nae]

sharon gonzalez truth.

[@lindaymohegan3529]

Why can't the casinos help give money, build homes, start jobs? So unfair. I am a big contributed to those casinos. Maybe I will stop and give my money to them directly. Yes get rid of the liquor stores. Drugs. Help.

[@rosestewart1606]

Just so you know tipis, wigwams and igloos are only temporary. They're like tents for when you're away from home. But sure...it is so important to live in a way that suits your culture and that includes what your community looks like and how it's laid out.

[@rosestewart1606]

Lindsey Morgan some of our reservations in Canada have casinos. It really depends how they spend their money but one near me has good leadership and they've used the money to build other companies. The big problem in the US is that the nations don't benefit from any resources found on their land. They get moved or their land is just taken away. The Sioux should have had all of the money from the resources found in the Black Hills.

[@lindaymohegan3529]

Rose Stewart exactly. I think the government wants them to just disappear. Makes me so sad.

[@kwamisoul]

my left ear loved this video

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Can't even joke about the thumbnail.

[@m.k.s.7417]

I wish that I could support/help them!!

[@angelaefferson4409]

Your gov gives them x amount of money each year

[@m.k.s.7417]

@@angelaefferson4409 I doubt that very much and even if they do/did; than it is clearly, not well spent/Invested.

[@rachelethridge7629]

You can. Contact the Oglala Lakota tribal office to see how.

[@m.k.s.7417]

@James Henry Smith oh truly??

[@m.k.s.7417]

@@rachelethridge7629 thanks, for that info., how do I (best) go about: doing so; I am from the U.K.??-(Maybe; I could visit My Local Politician, 1 [fine] day and ask him/her: what the U.K.; Could give??)!!

[@lalliedee1517]

I have a grandson from that tribe but he lives in Rapids . I really want to go and look for him. ...

[@calistarr9596]

When is the next 3oo mile ride to raise money ..

[@ws2228]

Horses were brought by European people.

[@diamond_is_weird519]

No there not, there from us Native American

[@ws2228]

@@diamond_is_weird519 No, the Spanish brought them.

[@nataliegrove2622]

Yes and native people have used them since they were brought here for literally everything. There is a story called "the gift of sacred dog" about how horses are beneficial to their culture and lifestyle. What does that have to do with poverty on the rez?

[@philxdev]

@@ws2228 they may have brought over "some" horses, but there are ancient artifacts and wall paintings + some skeletons of horses that predate all that, strongly suggesting that there were some horses in NA long before the europeans came..

[@derekintheph8935]

@@diamond_is_weird519 I bet you aren't even living in the USA please shut up

[@youknowwhatflav9916]

I can I help them is there anyway to donate ?

[@philxdev]

there are some organizations helping in some reservations.. just do some research on them and try to find a legit one..

[@tomasrikona1309]

Thankyou cousins. I feel you. Alcohol, drugs, loss these are the scourge of àll native people everywhere and the legacy of mass colonialism- but there is hope. It is coming. From your cousins the Maori people.

[@jeepgirl9592]

Can they get a go fund me donations page for wayland?

[@waboosejackson3711]

@Tom Jones your mentality is the problem here.

[@sammyventimiglia9679]

I know him personally if you would still be interested in helping out. Just let me know!

[@wolfgangjohn3675]

Shame on you Goverment!

[@BFaluup]

Why isn’t there a go fund me page for these people..I am sure many will donate.

[@mario-qq7bq]

Their own fault for being poor

[@BFaluup]

@@mario-qq7bq I am sure it also has to do with location and not discrimination...most people in the Midwest are drunk and poor or on drugs...I have known many natives that are quite successful they just had to make a move to a place that has opportunities.

[@SmokinLoon5150]

The victim mentality is strong with this one. Time to get a job. Grab the kids and go, stop sitting around waiting for help. GO. Do what is right, get a job, be a role model instead of pointing fingers, there are jobs EVERYWHERE. This guy can be Lah KOH tah without being dirt, but alas... six years later anyone want to bet where he is at??? They don't need hope or help, they need to get off their asses.

[@ndorobei4391]

They just need to release some cattles. The grass is green and the cattles will multiply rapidly. And all people will be rich.

[@susanr1903]

They can farm they just wont try

[@Dutch_Uncle]

Land can be overgrazed by cattle, goats and horses. The result is that the thin topsoil blows away and a dust bowl results, with poor soil remaining.

[@u2pg61]

There is no Audio?

[@u2pg61]

What can we do to support and help?

[@deitrestolbert4951]

Question!Where's the Chief??Why you let your people suffer like this? Good ideal set-up shop, start a garden, start a small grocery store, open a motel, gas station...build your rez...and close the liquor stores...Or invest in land and restart your community get off the rez.🤔💚

[@liongo6693]

Instead of giving the talibans 85billion dollars of tax money all of that should of went to the native american communities no words to describe how devastating to see how a thriving culture civilization, destroyed like this

[@parrotcracker6629]

Stop mish mashing information to suit your needs. Yeah, these Indigenous people need help but you pushing a false agenda is not gonna help them. In fact it makes you look stupid, and I don't want to give stupid people my attention. You are no help to them.

[@Erikjohannesberg]

Waylon and chewy told me rez life is good life

[@justinfendelet8675]

if only Gabriel Dumont and chief Poundmaker had the Gaitlin Gaitlin Gun .....

[@phoenixtoash2396]

You are the richest of all tribes in this world. You are wealthy beyond all things. You shall see soon how wealthy you really are. People will come looking for your help.

[@Erick-yh4ou]

I am sorry history have been so tough for all the natives americans in all the Americans the same situation in the Inca empire in south america there a re a lot of natives who suffered the same conditions and problems sadly i can tell too in chile the natives suffered discrimination against the government the elite are spanish born there when it will be justice ? I am mixed italian and native peruvian i wonder for all my brothers natives of all americas who suffered the same situation under the spanish and british empire when will be justice ? But i just see a comment which say move foward and no backwards and forgiveness which heal my soul after reading the atrocities spanish and british empire committed

[@belindasmith8735]

The colonizers that the natives blame never got any government handouts...my grandfather farmed the land and became successful. .its called pride and determination...too many excuses and self pity..if there's no work..pack up and go to the jobs..no excuses

[@simonerusso6920]

Breacks my hart to see the real owner's ov the land being treated like this shame on yuo america i wonder what god is on yuor side

[@lindagayparkis6621]

❤️

[@dianekeller6604]

Y.is.it.like.that.it.is.so.not.right

[@shawnmendenhall8152]

Thats my good friend

[@shawnmendenhall8152]

Go Wayland

[@custodialmark]

? Did you ever hear the story ; The Educated Horse. ' my kin born there. Mom from the Claymore family. i hope to offer my bikes and belongings to given at end or trail. or sooner if able to truck up there.

[@ms.annthrope415]

Gottta get put however way they can. If it means sitting in an army or marine recruiters office, sign all the paperwork, and wait for the bus, do it. At least you'll go places, have a paycheck, food and shelter. And maybe some education benefits. You'll certainly get some job training, diesel mechanic, flight mechanic, engineering, something. But yiu can't stay. There is nothing there. Just despair and misery.

[@eternity68]

This is so sad😞, cant they move to where the jobs are ? Its a necessity even if its wrong and sad.

[@melodydelgado5211]

You have land and i see grass , live like a farmer and plant stuff my family did my backround is shawnee, forest people

[@melodydelgado5211]

@Jeanne Dillon I'm so sorry, I come from Illinois, it snows there too , but you can plant in spring and can the vegetables, my grandma even canned meat , where theres a will there's a way, maybe there will is broken

[@MrTommyboy68]

@@melodydelgado5211 Sorry Menopause Mary: Did you see any electric poles????? MOST don't even have running water. All a bunch of fake promises made by us White men. They were "given" land that the government KNEW they couldn't survive or thrive on, hoping they would die out. PROMISED AID AND INFRASTRUCTURE WAS NEVER GIVEN, THE GOVERNMENT STILL OWES BILLIONS AND BILLIONS FOR LAND THEY "SOLD" TO THE GOVERNMENT. And now, it's "Ooohhhhh. You have minerals or oil under YOUR LAND and we want to take your land back and stick you someplace MORE INHOSPITABLE"

[@timgreen2426]

THEY DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER THE LAND. THE GOVERNMENT DOES AND DOES NOT ALLOW ANY CHANGES TO THE LAND IN ANY WAY. They cannot even build a house, a fence, a pond...NOTHING.

[@sleeplessaquarius]

@@MrTommyboy68 100%

[@paulboy741]

💔💔😓😓

[@Shoey77100]

the Rez is a pit of despair because people get stuff for nothing, giving them more stuff for nothing won't solve anything it will only make the problem even bigger.

[@spark300c]

yep the got 90 percent unemployment rate. it like one worst run reservation in usa.

[@gordonlewis4280]

If the government stood behind their treats we would not be in this position and some of you that comment on these topics are clueless and I'm sure not native.

[@markmagana5433]

Pray for the American Indians.

[@markmagana5433]

@@canskasapaemanon708 Yes

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

make man made ponds for water

[@angelaefferson4409]

Get them out of your neighborhood

[@user-yg6dk9eh8g]

That's some hard,hard living, You guys need some help

[@janetturner6771]

So very sad what we the New Americans have done to the Native Americans !! We have lied , stolen, miss treated all Native Americans !! So many on the reservations have no running water !! Auto to get to grocery shopping !! So very wrong !! 🙏🙏

[@Bradyvilleboy]

They can live like you and me. They just won't.

[@Bradyvilleboy]

@@canskasapaemanon708 Yes they can, and you know this because some do. When you're an adult, you plot your own course and you do well in the world. Or, you simply sit around and wait to be served.

[@leshughes748]

Why aren’t children taught about this genocide at school. Guilt maybe.🇬🇧

[@_6666-]

Because of COVID-19

[@jbalmir01]

You make your own conclusion of that question my friend

[@tobiisiba1641]

Lol it is everywhere stop with the stupid virtue signalling.

[@user-kx1pu8sn4x]

😢we must do something Of course we care. We were told the elders didn't want change to have water or utilities. You must have these changes. You must stop feeling like you don't matter. You do matter and we love you. Look at the reservation you, need lots of help. A total do overs. So what if someones prejudice, go work anyway. Prove to everyone you do good work for yourself so you can put your name on it. Please Jesus Yeshua Christ please GOD, this has to change today.

[@marcusmeins1839]

first world country uh?

[@johnfrench6564]

These people don’t even live on US land. They are separate from the government and don’t even have to follow our laws and constitution.

[@jflsdknf]

Why not leave the reservation

[@Bradyvilleboy]

2:50. We?

[@traviskrause8509]

Its just sad what these people have to endure other reservations aren't this way why is this one so bad!!!

[@timgreen2426]

They ALL are bad...they are government controlled.

[@traviskrause8509]

@@timgreen2426 I'm sure but some are worse than others

[@everettduncan7543]

Because South Dakota has a racist government

[@spark300c]

that because they near white people settlements. they can tap into that wealth. South Dakota has less people and less wealth in general.

[@malachisharp2695]

2.7k views barely any likes and no comments, the world is silent they don't care about us.

[@khrismakaruk1027]

Because it's the same story over and over always wanting more but never doing anything about it but bitching and complaining

[@maplecookies2036]

Malachi Sharp ..shame you don't think ppl care ! What do you want ppl to do ?

[@srl2634]

Malachi Sharp I care. It's sad to think about it.an hard to admit that y'all have a hard time because of the white man. I respect your plight.I love your culture. I wish things could be better for the native American.but know this . Some of us do care.

[@rosestewart1606]

Yup it's maddening. And I'm from Canada so I don't really count. Americans are so ignorant about their own history.

[@marleyg2850]

Reposting this on my IG where I have 10k followers (all though I don't think of them as followers- just good people who know the mass media is b.s & are seeking real truth ). We care. We just need to find eachother. The only thing I use "socialist media" for is sharing art, nature & reaching out to others who are trying to unite their communities against big business. Big love to all. Keep faith in eachother. 💪🔥❤

[@danofthepeople4787]

So that tattooed lady said she was strong (and likely proud) but then immediately said nobody was helping them. If the dude at the beginning and his kids would get to work using the knowledge of his people, he could work that land around him and BUILD a better place (or stop having kids if you don't have room).

[@loopybla5001]

They are not allowed to build on the land or farm.

[@danofthepeople4787]

Loopybla So hit the road and find a place they can. Or band together and bring about changes.

[@daviddigital6887]

They never wanted to "tear at the earth". Farming doesn't interest them. The crops tended to fail back in the older days but now with irrigation and better equipment it could be possible.

[@susanr1903]

Bullshit they can build ..they can build tiny house it less money but it would work ....they can farm raise animal ....stop blame and start doing and fu the boozs.shit ..start teach kids skills and if you have to leave rez do it who say you have to stay no one ....

[@Dutch_Uncle]

@@loopybla5001 The tribal organization decides what can be done on the land. Land cannot be owned or sold, which rules out a normal mortgage in which the lender holds the title and transfers it when the last payment is made or takes full possession if the payments are not made. I have driven through Whiteclay when beer was still sold, and it was indeed depressing. Men passed out on the streets in their own urine and vomit. Not mentioned was that men passed out on the highway were hit by motor vehicles. One improvement was to light the highway from Pine Ridge to Whiteclay so that drivers had a better chance of seeing what was on the road. The Nebraska liquor authorities pointed out that since there was not a track record of complaints about sales to minors, or after-hours sales the didn't have a reason to pull the permits. Also not mentioned is the extent to which other towns near the reservation have increased sales to Indians, or the degree to which problems on the reservation have been reduced when the tap Whiteclay was closed.

[@jari2018]

Actually it the midlle east farmers that after conquiring whole euorope that did the same with americas plains , eg hunter gathers died out or were assimiliated and the farmers made babies and cultivated the land which led to cities and tech. Maybe us whites down want know what we europeans know or should i say englishtalking

[@joerafati]

Same exact story is happening in Palestine.

[@waboosejackson3711]

I watch videos - such as this to look at the dilemmas on our reservations, but I hate seeing the Racist's that come here to comment/ cut our red nations down to feel better about themselves, gross immaturity and childness. You want to know who's fault it is, it's everyone but the Red nation's fault. It's the People who came here, and changed the dynamics of our ecosystems and lied and Stole and unjustifiably committed Massive blatant genocide. Just know that we are still working and Fighting to Recover from that chapter in your false history teachings. I don't drink Alcohol, I was born on our traditional hunting gathering grounds, in Cowlitz county, ( those poor Indian people were wiped out) . not on a reservation, but on traditional Indian territory. My people were Nomadic, they accustomed to the climate and elements, depending on the time of year, we traveled, sometimes very far, to harvest, sometimes even farther North for moose. We even have condors on some of our old old baskets, which tells the story condors used to dwell in the beautiful Columbia river gorge (n'chiwana) a very long time ago.

[@waboosejackson3711]

I wish they had a program to adopt families to (Help) just to send them item's they need, I would send those children clothes. Not a lot but what I can afford.

[@crazyhorse23]

Aman

[@user-rh8fl8qz2z]

Stop blaming an ENTIRE RACE for your OWN SHORTCOMINGS! My COUSIN MOVED to a better place and is a TOP PHYSICIAN now.

[@spellerlittlewing]

First thing first take down that forbidden 😭 flag

[@FISHBREATHH]

everything is someone else's fault. if you want a different life you must choose the new life.

[@timgreen2426]

Not on a reservation. It is government controlled. The only way out is off the government tit.

[@SP-qo3pd]

Enough with the white guilt Dave. Natives appreciate help, but they want the help of another native. We know what happened the last time they put their trust in whites. Just like blacks in the ghetto, they appreciate the help, but they don't want the white man trying to help when all they want is help from another black man. The true issue is cultural, and because of that it's going to take natives to help others so that they can collectively change some of the negative aspects of native culture. The best any outsider can do is do a good deed which is highly commendable.

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

💰💰💰💰💰

[@jamesli2441]

The Navajo should have never helped the US in world war 2.

[@pancakes6119]

Why ?

[@jamesli2441]

@@pancakes6119 Uummm...because of how they were treated? Maybe the Japanese would have treated them just a little better

[@spark300c]

we'll things got better for native after world war 2 because white people become less racist so they could earn a living off the res. I think Japanese would treated them worst. The biggest problem with lakota reverasion that its in the middle of nowhere. they can not just go to where white people are get a job.

[@keithinaz9769]

Keep living in the past, you will continue to have NO FUTURE.

[@samtate1260]

I’m sorry I text the wrong people

[@joannasoltysinska9390]

This level of poverty is just shocking. I mean it wouldn't be in a third world country, but in the USA? Seriously? The country that wants to come across as the greatest country in the world? Unbelievable. All the world usually sees is Hollywood, Miami Beach, Wall Street, New Orleans, the Statue of Liberty.... Liberty my ass... I don't see people sitting around waiting for handouts, I see people whose ancestors were abandoned, moved aside, thrown into poverty and f*cked over years ago, and their descendants are still born into poverty, despairing, dejecting, hopeless, isolated - and most of them will die that way, and it's heartbreaking. Comments about farming are just hilarious, do you guys realize how much it costs to start off with farming, on any profitable scale? I've spent the last three years in a countryside in Poland, big money is needed to do anything, and most individuals, whose families have lived off farming for generations, just give up and give room to huge establishments, because most families just can't live off small scale farming anymore, like they used to. Even a small own vegetable garden costs some money, and these people here don't have normal homes, electricity, money for food. So, what farming? Are they supposed to steal cattle, seeds, fertilizers, irrigation systems and power generators from somewhere? What reason is this country giving these people to believe their future may be better? Poverty and suffering are NOT a choice. This should be addressed by the government, not only through benefits, but through general and real family support, education and health programmes, improving opportunities, promoting inclusion, infrastructure development etc. This is really very saddening :(

[@geraldblair3094]

If own anyone it is the Indian

[@tiffanyhammond5927]

I dont get it. Time has chanhed. Why cant they go work for a living and try and make a better life for the next gen like we do?? You can still practice your culture and civilized at the same time. I would never ever raise my kid in the environment i just watched. A cold day before that happens.

[@asteroidkatfacts1036]

I agree. We should keep our culture but also adapt to modern times. Change doesn't mean erasing the past. It means creating the future.

[@ipazicetan7240]

80-90%unemployment. There are no jobs.

[@daviddigital6887]

Not all the tribes and rez are like this. Some are rich. I think the Lakota might have been a bit more angry and hard headed. Their history could explain why, but they need a change.

[@user-sk9hl7si7l]

@@ipazicetan7240 move to big cities !

[@ipazicetan7240]

@@user-sk9hl7si7l Why Thats ridiculous. There is no easy answer. some people dont have running water, etc

[@nativoplantas2003]

Aho

[@jesus.christis.lord.foreve899]

White Plain Nebraska GOD See GOD Hear GOD Send help in JESUS' Name

[@sheliarossell3162]

Where is go fund me. Where are look outs. Baseball games. Counseling of your great purpose is what you do daily. To destroy your great purpose is to find your weekends use it to destroy your life. You live life with less or more money is a tool while we are hear. Where are your people in the world to help? Why isn't a carpenter seeing this to help. This father. NO one makes it alone in this world. Lord send your Devine help for all there needs. It's through people that helps other who will go who can I send. Bring RVs send retire people, veterans can help there so many that could help familys.

[@chrisskinner6291]

All secret society Caused

[@bigfoot1968]

get off the reservation, get a job and join society, quit looking for handouts with excuses........ its a big world,

[@wkyt9324]

No bigger leeches and parasites than the Europeans, you're all a bunch of fat diabetic, mass shooting, kid diddlers. Your people are TRASH, they even make shows about you like Hoaders, your people live in garbage piles like pigs. You bring filth, disease, and pollution everywhere you go But you're all dying out luckily, good riddance!!

[@wkyt9324]

@@canskasapaemanon708 if you're caucasian, you're a European. Where you live is irrelevant.

[@wkyt9324]

@@canskasapaemanon708 you identify as white, I can tell, that's why you're dancing around the subject. You're a neanderthal, aren't ya?

[@wkyt9324]

@@canskasapaemanon708 peachy skin? So a European Caucosoid like I already said. Lying is so embedded in your DNA, you can't even be honest and upfront about your skin complexion. That's how sorry your people are 🤣

[@wkyt9324]

@@canskasapaemanon708 There's no such thing as black people, now I know for a fact you're a European Caucosoid, Illegal occupiers of the U.S., Canada, South Africa, etc but that is ending soon, your fake country in particular that was founded by devils is falling apart and will become dust soon. Your population is dwindling to 7% in a few decades because you're all lazy heroin addicts. Also just so you don't sound like a complete moron next time, why don't go use your eyes and you tell me when you find an African with darker skin than his/her hair or a Caucosoid with lighter skin than the whites of their eyes. You won't because all hominids are brown skinned within roughly 42 shades. Black/White is a fantasy you Neanderthals clinge to. People are Africoids, Caucosoids, Americans, etc and you cave people are not Americans, that's why your passports say U .S. Citizen and not American, because you're not Americans, just illegal invaders who are luckily dying out en mass globally. Good riddance 👋

[@garterhead5689]

Poor because they dont work and sit around expecting a handout

[@aponi5093]

Another asinine comment 🙄 Go educate yourself on history of what happened to MY people! Go educate yourself on what's still going on and what's still being done to my people. Don't pass judgement without the facts. MY people are some of the best people, more than you'll ever amount to. I'm sorry you have a settler colonial mindset! I'll pray for you.

[@GenZGuy1]

@@aponi5093 Don't even respond to comments like this simplistic folk offer simplistic solutions. He denies how much of an impact history has on people living today.

[@myamazing9146]

Soooo…how about African Americans and natives team up….I’ve noticed most oppressed groups fight among each other but never fight the bully…stronger together! ✊🏾💯❤️🔥🩸🧬✨

[@edgarfleming9308]

shove it u fruitcake, indigenous people in the United States have been jerked around so many times, treaties signed then later broken by the government

[@rudybrooks3722]

Yeah just like Uncle Sam who sits around and takes money out of my check.🤔

[@melodydelgado5211]

I think they just need the will, ill ask mynavajo friend to say a prayer and get a sand painting, they suffer too, when i was little my grandma told me , dont you tell anyone your indian , diddnt know what she ment then im 69 years old now and i understand

[@robingeorge5632]

I am trying

[@KP-vg3zn]

I'm confused on what they actually want. I see no livestock or crops to help feed themselves. Obviously none of them have learned any valuable trades. Did they not receive any education? All I see is people looking for handouts. Help yourself before blaming others for your own failures.

[@KP-vg3zn]

@@diamond_is_weird519 The video is literally called " Don't forget about us". The poorest place in America.

[@KP-vg3zn]

@@diamond_is_weird519 Believe me you wouldn't be able to get 100 feet near me.

[@KP-vg3zn]

Your comments just proved my point on your education level.

[@elkeprobst789]

-Intergenerational trauma caused by violence and disease brought by white man -Impact of violence brought by “Christian missionaries” of residential abusive boarding school - Reservation land not the best, since the land was stolen by white man Ei mai neyhum neōa kani ✊🏼

[@amandac.9869]

Often times, there aren’t schools around. What do we expect with so little opportunity.

[@louisewatson6211]

Please contact me asap for more information about my people who I have been deliberately disconnected from my foster care family members abused and treated me with anger jealousy and fear. 229 288 5352

[@goodbuffalo811]

Who are your people? If you don’t mind me asking?

[@MW-bz1qe]

Maybe so called "African " Americans should see this and then tell us how bad they have it .... This is horrible how the Europeans treated the American Indians and how they still suffer from true racism and poverty.

[@rudybrooks3722]

Black Americans have their own fight,we don't need to sit back and watch nobody.🤔

[@muddypalmsera]

O' the slippery slope of welfare..

[@rudybrooks3722]

Welfare?You got more Whitefolks on welfare than any other race.🤣

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

start farming the land

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

@@canskasapaemanon708 make man made ponds on top of land. So u have enough water

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

@@canskasapaemanon708 raise animals and sell animals to butcher buy and sell animals to white man

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

@@canskasapaemanon708 think of ur people that u should free the slaves 1 at a time sell salt as gods people did...

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

@@canskasapaemanon708 sue the government to feed ur people demand you get food an water .

[@hildebertocarreiro9232]

R u talking there is a dictatorship there

[@memebear755]

no one forced them to buy the booze buying the booze was there own faught

[@cayk9444]

It really wasn't their own fault. If you pick up a book, you'd see the cycle taking place here. Our government tried to wipe these people put for hundred of years. And now, they aren't wiping then out, the the effects of their historic and ongoing decisions sure are. For centuries, their land has been stolen with zero compensation. Their children have been taken for no reason (to "civilize them") for centuries. For decades, people refused to employ natives (yet then they were blamed for having no jobs), the government isolated them on reserves and forced them to stay there (but gave no jobs or services), this country has been very overtly trying to erase their culture for 100s of years, their children were forced to go to schools that were knowingly rampant with sexual abuse and physical abuse (by catholic churches that were supposed to "civilize" them), and then the arresting parents if they didn't send their kids (and this is very recent history). This doesn't even brush the surface. Even today, they keep them on land that the people don't "own"and therefore cannot alter or profit off of, they have no control of their own resources, they government claims its government land and keeps the $$$$$... yet provides no services (not even clean drinking water). The government likes to have their cake and eat it too with the land that natives are on. Consider yourself blessed to be so ignorant (which means you can't relate to this) that you have no idea about the reality for us people.

[@aponi5093]

@@cayk9444 thank you for being another voice of truth for my people 💜

[@codyhall7992]

@@cayk9444 well said and that’s not even the beginning!

[@user-sk9hl7si7l]

@@cayk9444 nobody holds your azz in there,move to big city and you will find job in 30 min,learn skills and get better job. victim mentality wont make you progress.selfpity,hatred is destructive force.stop talking ,do something about it!

[@joanneyarwood147]

Government ruined the Indian reservation,so many fallen with drugs and welfare money and alcohol now ,just wait for the next government check.Sad sorry

[@hugoyliniemi1650]

If you do not know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, simply pray the following prayer in faith, and Jesus will be your Lord! Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:21). I am calling on You.

[@user-eo9ie7zn9p]

Ghost Dance. The warrior shall inherit the Earth and the Sky. Traditions last... Blessings and Prosperity. WGNJMN 🌌🌌🌌🦃🦃🦃🦬🦬🦬

[@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point]

What did that tat on her neck cost? Be what you are, dont complain later