Darlene Whitehead
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Darlene Whitehead
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MHA NATION MEMBER, ANCESTORS EXTENDING TO SPIRIT LAKE NATION AND STANDING ROCK. BOARDING/RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVOR
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
to significant health and social challenges. "Reservations" have the name they do because the lands that comprise them were "reserved" by the Indians for their own use when they gave up title to their other lands so that you and I and others like us might live here. www.bia.gov/as-ia/opa/on....
The War Against Poverty--The American Indians
The Bureau of Indian Affairs mission is to enhance the quality of life, promote economic opportunities, and to carry out the federal responsibilities entrusted to us to protect and improve the trust a...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Native Americans on reservations experience disproportionately high poverty rates, often triple the national average, due to historical land loss, suppressed governance, underfunded schools, severe lack of jobs, inadequate housing, and limited access to basic necessities like clean water, leading
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM