Genocide in the USA

 

                                             Genocidal Results of the Failed American Indian Policies of the United States Government:

 

    MORTALITY:

 

• Lakotah men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.

• Lakotah death rate is the highest in the United States.

• The Lakotah infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average.

• One out of every four Lakotah children born are fostered or adopted out to non-Indian homes.

• Diseases such as tuberculosis, polio, etc. are present. Cancer is now at epidemic proportions!

• Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S national average for this group.

   

   DISEASE:

 

• The Tuberculosis rate on Lakotah reservations is approx. 800% higher than the U.S national average.

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

• The rate of diabetes is 800% higher than the U.S national average.

• Federal Commodity Food Program provides high sugar foods that kill Native people through diabetes and heart disease.

   

   POVERTY:

 

• Median income is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.

• 97% of our Lakotah people live below the poverty line.

• Many families cannot afford heating oil, wood or propane and many residents use ovens to heat their homes.

 

   UNEMPLOYMENT:

 

• Unemployment rates on our reservations are 80% or higher.

• Government funding for job creation is lost through cronyism and corruption.

 

    HOUSING:

 

• Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).

• 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage while 40% lack electricity.

• 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.

• 60% of housing is infected with potentially fatal black molds.

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

   

   DRUGS AND ALCOHOL:

 

• More than half the Reservation’s adults battle addiction and disease.

• Alcoholism affects 9 in 10 families.

• Two known meth-amphetamine labs allowed to continue operation. Why?

 

    INCARCERATION:

 

• Indian children incarceration rate 40% higher than whites.

• In South Dakota, 21 percent of state prisoners are American Indians, yet they only make up 2% of the population.

• Indians have the second largest state prison incarceration rate in the nation.

• Most Indians live on federal reservations. Less than 2% of Indians live where the state has jurisdiction!

   

   THREATENED CULTURE:

 

• Only 14% of the Lakotah population can speak the Lakotah language.

• The language is not being shared inter-generationally. Today, the average age of a fluent Lakotah speaker is 65 years.

• Lakotah language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction.

• Lakotah language is not allowed to be taught in the U.S. Government schools