Reservation Life: Social and Economic Problems Facing Native Americans

In the late 1870s, the war between the United States and India still continued, but another war began to oppose native American culture. It began with the American government forcing Indians to leave their hometown and move to the protected area. Since then, Native Americans have struggled to survive on the land they had many years ago. It is a poor region and the majority are hopeless. Stagnation is one of the poorest places in the Western Hemisphere and in America there is the highest percentage of addiction, domestic violence and suicide.

Clearly Native Americans face many problems. These problems result in impact on reservation. The main problem, alcohol and suicide is not only the Native American, but also the question that many people face in their lives. One difference is that these non local residents are by no means less than Indians.

Native American protection is traditionally difficult. The land allocated to the protected area is usually not suitable for the cultivation of rich crops. The high unemployment rate, lack of education, illness and alcohol abuse is a permanent matter, and young people 's education in the United States makes inter - generational communication difficult. Nonetheless, progress since the 1980s has improved the situation. "The Red Convertible" is the second chapter of Erdrich's first novel "Love Medicine". The novel left a deep impression on critics about the representation of modern American indigenous lives and the diversity of people in a single culture. "Critical Louis Fleven" commented, "Edrich's love medicine does not fit in many ways, but it gives

However, in the face of colonization, conversion to Christianity, limitation of reservation, collapse of the economy, the main story of the decline of traditional indigenous culture is not the only story that can be told . Native American living records of the 19th century are spoken by indigenous peoples themselves and are quite different from historical books, movies and museums. Aboriginal stories about local history tend not to convey the story of destruction and demise but to insist on the existence of indigenous peoples, but to focus on the story of the survival of the clay Odibawa scholar Gerald Vizenor .