Political correctness…

[pismoe]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hide it , destroy it . i remember reading about USSR and how they erased the history of the things that they didn't like and that was 1968 - 69 . Its currently that way with 'islamic state' that destroys the cities and pre islamic statues that it doesn't like . And looks like its happening that way with history that the USA doesn't like .

 

[iceberg]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

great. not denying that.

just saying this particular place seems to have closed on their own choices.

They just did not want the hassle of the stupidity/cowardice of political correctness... I don't blame them one bit

you're making a lot of assumptions.

 

[Rustic]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

 

[Rustic]

I'm a minority and I live in one of the least politically correct places in the country… That's real freedom

 

[RightyTighty]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

They didn't need PC to control your kind. The exact opposite actually.

It's useful now - at times.

 

[Auld Phart]

Progressives want history to be, what they want it to be that's just a fact.

The winners write the history books.

Political correctness is the death of the individual and any sort of freedom… Fact

PC is simply annoying, and stop being a drama queen.

Political correctness is indoctrinated into the schools, what do you think happens when that happens?

The schools are required to be rather PC, that's what you need to get along with other citizens in public spaces. There are many places where one does not have to be PC like at home, church, any private space, etc. In public and at work, PC rules the day.

The schools are required to be rather PC,

Why?

do they believe the facts will hurt those poor innocent little minds?

How long before the Civil War is removed from the curriculum?

25 years?

50?


"Kid, I dont' care what your grandfather told you, there was no war between the states"

 

[Rustic]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

They didn't need PC to control your kind. The exact opposite actually.

It's useful now - at times.

The federal government is worse now than they have ever been to the Indian nations. They pretty much killed the spirit of the Indian nations because of affirmative action/political correctness, you know European socialist thinking?
I invite you to come out here to the Pineridge Indian reservation and see what affirmative-action/political correctness has done to the people.

 

[rightwinger]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

 

[RightyTighty]

The winners write the history books.

Political correctness is the death of the individual and any sort of freedom… Fact

PC is simply annoying, and stop being a drama queen.

Political correctness is indoctrinated into the schools, what do you think happens when that happens?

The schools are required to be rather PC, that's what you need to get along with other citizens in public spaces. There are many places where one does not have to be PC like at home, church, any private space, etc. In public and at work, PC rules the day.

The schools are required to be rather PC,

Why?

do they believe the facts will hurt those poor innocent little minds?

How long before the Civil War is removed from the curriculum?

25 years?

50?


"Kid, I dont' care what your grandfather told you, there was no war between the states"

Not teaching history and being PC are unrelated but for the fact that the history we teach is - usually PC.

Actual history makes us, and most historical figures, look like the assholes we/they actually are/were.

 

[iceberg]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

yes. much better to put individuals into stereotypes so we don't have to understand another point of view they may have.

let's just create a group, call all in it "assholes" and then when we don't like what someone says, slide them to that group and wa-la. no thought necessary. just classify and keep on insulting people.

 

[Rustic]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

It's not about them in general, it's about suppressing history. Basically destroying any sort of freedom and individuality for the sake of the "acceptable" state of political correctness. You know safe spaces for snowflakes like yourself... in the deep state

 

[RightyTighty]

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

They didn't need PC to control your kind. The exact opposite actually.

It's useful now - at times.

The federal government is worse now than they have ever been to the Indian nations. They pretty much killed the spirit of the Indian nations because of affirmative action/political correctness, you know European socialist thinking?
I invite you to come out here to the Pineridge Indian reservation and see what affirmative-action/political correctness has done to the people.

Worse than when we were slaughtering you to steal your land? I think not.

 

[Rustic]

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

They didn't need PC to control your kind. The exact opposite actually.

It's useful now - at times.

The federal government is worse now than they have ever been to the Indian nations. They pretty much killed the spirit of the Indian nations because of affirmative action/political correctness, you know European socialist thinking?
I invite you to come out here to the Pineridge Indian reservation and see what affirmative-action/political correctness has done to the people.

Worse than when we were slaughtering you to steal your land? I think not.

First of all no real Indian considers any land his... it's on loan from God so to speak. Lol

Here's the result of political correctness/affirmative-action and the protection of the federal government…

Pine Ridge Reservation

STATISTICAL DATA

Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.

BRIEF STATISTICS

* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.

* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.

* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.

* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).

* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.

* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.

* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.

INTRODUCTORY

Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.

And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.

But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.

What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.

This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.

But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.



Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge

IN DEPTH STATISTICS

* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.

* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.

* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.

* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.

* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.

* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.

* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.

* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.

* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.

* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.

* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.

* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.

* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.

* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.


* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.

* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.

* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).

* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.

* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.

* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.

* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

* School drop-out rate is over 70%.

* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average

* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.

* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.

* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.

* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.

* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.

* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.

* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.

* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.

* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.

* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.

* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.

* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.

* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.

* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.

* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.

* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.

* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.

* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.

* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.

* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.

* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.

* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.

* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.

* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.

* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.

* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.

* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.

* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.

* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently..

 

[rightwinger]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

yes. much better to put individuals into stereotypes so we don't have to understand another point of view they may have.

let's just create a group, call all in it "assholes" and then when we don't like what someone says, slide them to that group and wa-la. no thought necessary. just classify and keep on insulting people.

Poor Snowflakes

<sob> They're not showing the prober respect to my slave raping heroes <sob>

 

[rightwinger]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

It's not about them in general, it's about suppressing history. Basically destroying any sort of freedom and individuality for the sake of the "acceptable" state of political correctness. You know safe spaces for snowflakes like yourself... in the deep state

Those statues are not the Confederate history

THIS is the Confederate history

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

Yeah, that explains why you loons lost the power you had

 

[iceberg]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

Why should we worry about the hurt feelings of a bunch of Snowflake Confederate sympathizers?

yes. much better to put individuals into stereotypes so we don't have to understand another point of view they may have.

let's just create a group, call all in it "assholes" and then when we don't like what someone says, slide them to that group and wa-la. no thought necessary. just classify and keep on insulting people.

Poor Snowflakes

<sob> They're not showing the prober respect to my slave raping heroes <sob>

wow. good thing you don't maximize bullshit, huh?

 

[RightyTighty]

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

The federal government has been the enemy from the beginning, they need political correctness to control their subjects... fact

They didn't need PC to control your kind. The exact opposite actually.

It's useful now - at times.

The federal government is worse now than they have ever been to the Indian nations. They pretty much killed the spirit of the Indian nations because of affirmative action/political correctness, you know European socialist thinking?
I invite you to come out here to the Pineridge Indian reservation and see what affirmative-action/political correctness has done to the people.

Worse than when we were slaughtering you to steal your land? I think not.

First of all no real Indian considers any land his... it's on loan from God so to speak. Lol

Here's the result of political correctness/affirmative-action and the protection of the federal government…

Pine Ridge Reservation

STATISTICAL DATA

Despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Indigenous people are struggling hard to overcome decades of neglect, discrimination and forced destruction of their traditional cultures to promote a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency.

BRIEF STATISTICS

* 97% of of the population at Pine Ridge Reservation live below federal poverty line.

* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.

* Death due to Heart Disease: Twice the national average.

* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).

* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.

* At least 60% of the homes are severely substandard, without water, electricity, adequate insulation, and sewage systems.

* Recent reports state the average life expectancy is 45 years old while others state that it is 48 years old for men and 52 years old for women. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for any community in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.

INTRODUCTORY

Hidden away, dotted throughout the landscape of America, are the Reservations of the Indigenous People of our land. Mostly unknown or forgotten by the mainstream culture of the dominant U.S. society, the average United States resident knows little or nothing about these people other than what romanticized versions they see in movies and television or else in their nearest Reservation casino. Most assume that whatever poverty exists on a reservation is most certainly comparable to that which they might experience themselves.

And definitely, mainstream Americans are accustomed to being exposed to poverty. It has become nearly invisible due to its overwhelming presence everywhere. We drive through our cities now with a blind eye, numb to the suffering around us. Even more, we watch the televised reports of Third World countries, shake our heads and turn away, rightfully assuming that our government and our charities will help those in need all over the globe.

But the question begs: What about the foreign nations on America's own soil, within this country, a part and yet apart from mainstream society? What about the Native American Nations on America's reservations? Few mainstream Americans know anything about the people that live on these reservations and fewer still know or comprehend the unconscionable conditions present on many of them.

What many do not know is that a staggering number of residents on Native American reservations live in abject conditions rivaling, or even surpassing, that of many Third World countries.

This report chronicles just one Nation, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Yet the name and only a few details could easily be changed to describe a host of others; Dineh (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Tohono O'odham, Pima, Yaqui, Ojibwa, Chippewa, the list is long.

But despite nearly-insurmountable conditions, few resources, and against unbelievable odds, Nation after Nation of Indigenous leaders and their people are working hard to counteract decades of oppression and forced destruction of their cultures to bring their citizens back to a life of self-respect and self-sufficiency in today's world.



Below are further in depth statistics of Pine Ridge

IN DEPTH STATISTICS

* The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Indian Reservation sits in Bennett, Jackson, and Shannon Counties and is located in the southwest corner of South Dakota, fifty miles east of the Wyoming border.

* The 11,000-square mile (over 2 million acres) Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut.

* The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.

* The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.

* According to the 1998 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, the Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 16. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Nation.

* The population is steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities in order to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.

* Recent reports point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 per year.

* The unemployment rate vacillates from 85% to 95% on the Reservation.

* There is no industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.

* The nearest town of size (which provides some jobs for those few persons able to travel the distance) is Rapid City, South Dakota with approximately 57,000 residents. It is located approximately 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located about 350 miles away.

* Some figures state that the life expectancy on the Reservation is 48 years old for men and 52 for women. Other reports state that the average life expectancy on the Reservation is 45 years old. With either set of figures, that's the shortest life expectancy for a community anywhere in the Western Hemisphere outside Haiti, according to The Wall Street Journal.

* Teenage suicide rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is 150% higher than the U.S. national average for this age group.

* The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.

* More than half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and malnutrition are rampant.


* The rate of diabetes on the Reservation is reported to be 800% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Recent reports indicate that almost 50% of the adults on the Reservation over the age of 40 have diabetes. Over 37% of population is diabetic.

* As a result of the high rate of diabetes on the Reservation, diabetic-related blindness, amputations, and kidney failure are common.

* The tuberculosis rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately 800% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S. national average.

* Each winter, Reservation Elders are found dead from hypothermia (freezing).

* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are infested with Black Mold, Stachybotrys. This infestation causes an often-fatal condition with infants, children, elderly, those with damaged immune systems, and those with lung and pulmonary conditions at the highest risk. Exposure to this mold can cause hemorrhaging of the lungs and brain as well as cancer.

* Many Reservation residents live without health care due to vast travel distances involved in accessing that care. Additional factors include under-funded, under-staffed medical facilities and outdated or non-existent medical equipment. There is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.

* Preventive healthcare programs are rare.

* In most of the treaties between the U.S. Government and Indian Nations, the U.S. government agreed to provide adequate medical care for Indians in return for vast quantities of land. The Indian Health Services (IHS) was set up to administer the health care for Indians under these treaties and receives an appropriation each year to fund Indian health care. Unfortunately, the appropriation is very small compared to the need. The IHS is understaffed and ill-equipped and can't possibly address the needs of Indian communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

* School drop-out rate is over 70%.

* According to a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, the Pine Ridge Reservation schools are in the bottom 10% of school funding by U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

* Teacher turnover is 800% that of the U.S. national average

* The small Tribal Housing Authority homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation are so overcrowded and scarce that many homeless families often use tents or cars for shelter. Many families live in shacks, old trailers, or dilapidated mobile homes.

* There is a large homeless population on the Reservation, but most families never turn away a relative no matter how distant the blood relation. Consequently, many homes have large numbers of people living in them.

* There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (a home which may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.

* 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.

* Over 33% of the Reservation homes lack basic water and sewage systems as well as electricity.

* Many residents must carry (often contaminated) water from the local rivers daily for their personal needs.

* 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no electricity.

* 59% of the Reservation homes are substandard.

* It is reported that at least 60% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation need to be burned to the ground and replaced with new housing due to infestation of the potentially-fatal Black Mold, Stachybotrys. There is no insurance or government program to assist families in replacing their homes.

* Some Reservation families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.

* Many Reservation homes lack adequate insulation. Even more homes lack central heating.

* Without basic insulation or central heating in their homes, many residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation use their ovens to heat their homes.

* Many Reservation homes lack stoves, refrigerators, beds, and/or basic furniture.

* Most Reservation families live in rural and often isolated areas.

* The largest town on the Reservation is the town of Pine Ridge which has a population of approximately 5,720 people and is the administrative center for the Reservation.

* There are few improved roads on the Reservation and many of the homes are inaccessible during times of heavy snow or rain.

* Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a factor. Traditionally, summer temperatures reach well over 110*F and winters bring bitter cold with temperatures that can reach -50*F below zero or worse. Flooding, tornados, or wildfires are always a risk.

* Many of the wells and much of the water and land on the Reservation is contaminated with pesticides and other poisons from farming, mining, open dumps, and commercial and governmental mining operations outside the Reservation. A further source of contamination is buried ordnance and hazardous materials from closed U.S. military bombing ranges on the Reservation.

* The Pine Ridge Reservation still has no banks, motels, discount stores, or movie theaters. It has only one grocery store of any moderate size and it is located in the town of Pine Ridge on the Reservation.

* Several of the banks and lending institutions nearest to the Reservation were recently targeted for investigation of fraudulent or predatory lending practices, with the citizens of the Pine Ridge Reservation as their victims.

* There are no public libraries except one at the Oglala Lakota College of the reservation.

* There is no public transportation available on the Reservation.

* Ownership of operable automobiles by residents of the Reservation is highly limited.

* Predominate form of travel for all ages on the Reservation is walking or hitchhiking.

* There is one very small airport on the Reservation servicing both the Pine Ridge Reservation and Shannon County. It's longest, paved runway extends 4,969 feet. There are no commercial flights available.

* There is one radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. KILI 90.1FM is located near the town of Porcupine on the Reservation.

* Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.

* The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.

* The Oglala Lakota Nation has prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation since the early 1970's. However, the town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (which sits 400 yards off the Reservation border in a contested "buffer" zone) has approximately 14 residents and four liquor stores which sell over 4.1 million cans of beer each year resulting in a $3million annual trade. Unlike other Nebraska communities, Whiteclay exists only to sell liquor and make money. It has no schools, no churches, no civic organizations, no parks, no benches, no public bathrooms, no fire service and no law enforcement. Tribal officials have repeatedly pleaded with the State of Nebraska to close these liquor stores or enforce the State laws regulating liquor stores but have been consistently..

Your "loan" from God we had no qualms stealing from you and kicking you off of. And bad as things might still be the Federal government isn't arming men and sending them out to slaughter your kind. PC or not that's an improvement.

 

[RightyTighty]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

Yeah, that explains why you loons lost the power you had

Lost power? The white man only recently started to lose power here. Now, get back to the kitchen where you belong.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Progressives can't tolerate anyone that disagrees with them and will destroy real history for the sake of political Correctness...

With Confederate flags gone, Civil War museum will close

from what i understand, the choice was their own based on events around them. i have yet to read anyone saying this is a forced moved.

sad, i agree, that people will remove history. i've never been a fan of that. but unless i misread this was their own decision.

I see it all the time with the progressives coming out here to the Indian reservations thinking that their political correctness will help the people out here… The fact remains, with affirmative-action/political correctness - it has destroyed Indians All across the country. Fact

We were destroying your kind long before PC came along.

Yeah, that explains why you loons lost the power you had

Lost power? The white man only recently started to lose power here. Now, get back to the kitchen where you belong.

Wooosh right over the point on your little noodle.