Reservation poverty
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Reservations in the United States, known as Indian reservations, are sovereign Native American territories that are managed by a tribal government in cooperation with the federal Bureau of Indian Affa
Allen, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, has the lowest per capita income in the country. The alcohol depot of Whiteclay, Nebraska sold over 4.9 million 12-ounce cans of beer in 2010 almost exclusively to Oglala Lakota from the reservation.
The large expanses of land on some reservations are used as garbage dumps for metropolitan areas.
Many believe economic revival must originate on the reservation, and incorporate the cultures of the peoples who reside on them.
A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and the 1960s. George Washington and Henry Knox we
Tom Torlino (of the Navajo Nation) entered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in October 1882 at age 22 and departed in August 1885.
Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins demonstrating European methods of farming to Creek (Muscogee) on his Georgia plantation situated along the Flint River, 1805
Marsdin, a non-native man, and a group of students from the Alaska region
Portrait of an assimilated Indigenous Californian in Sacramento, 1867