Reservation

Today Native Americans are stereotypically seen as drunks. Even in documentaries they are portrayed as that. But in reality this alcohol is a very big problem in the reservations. Another big problem is the reservations themselves. Before the Europeans arrived the Native Americans had a peaceful life. but when the Europeans arrived their diseases killed a lot of them. Then the Native Americans got killed too because they would not give up their land. The Native Americans were given land after they were driven off their own land. The land that they were given was land that nobody else wanted and was not good land to farm and use. But then it was found out the land they were living on had huge oil reserves and oil companies would dig underneath the land to get there. The Native Americans did not know about this and the ones that did could not do anything about it so it was like being cheated out of their land two times. Also even inside the reservations they are not really respected by the other people. Putting them in reservations was trying to help them save their culture but instead the culture did not survive and they got separated from the world.