Although unemployment and poverty rates on Minnesota's Indian reservations dropped by a third during the 1990s, serious problems still persist on outstate reservations, according to the Census Bureau.
In recent decades, Cherokee Nation has continued to prosper in cultural preservation, health care and economic development by ...
It is nothing new to say that America's Indian reservations are awash in poverty, propped up by welfare, and that along with generations of welfare have come generations of other social ills: drugs ...
In recent decades, Cherokee Nation has continued to prosper in cultural preservation, health care and economic development by ...
The poverty rate at Fond du Lac ranged from 19 percent for families to 26 percent for individuals, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, the most recent year for which reservation poverty numbers are ...
The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports in our series, ...
POPLAR, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Life on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking - poverty, isolation, joblessness and ...