Sunday, December 14, 2008

Lawless lands

watching the video "lawless lands" allowed me to receive some information that i would have got if it was not for this class, Because all i have been hearing were lies. I found it very depressing that the system does very little to nothing for Indian reservations. When i was little i would got back to my mom's home town, Holbrook in northern Arizona. which is near a Navajo reservation and i remember going to meetings with my grandmother, and hearing them talk about not getting checks and other financial help that was promised the months prior. So i can relate to the racism and discrimination amongst the Native Americans. in the video the FBI are in the wrong because money was taken from Indian reservations because of the New York lost of the world trade center. At the end of the day the bad people are still doing bad and the good are getting screwed over, because of the lack of effort from the social worker's to do anything about it.

1 comment:

leslie lou said...

This film frustrated me as well. The system is does discriminate, it inherently punishes those that can fight against it. It is unfortunate that the advocacy for the Native population is overworked and over looked. This injustice will hopefully be remedy in the near future.