I'm going to go on a rant here, so consider yourselves forewarned...
I drove through the reservation that is on my eastern property line. They've been having a lot of utility type digging going on lately. I was drooling over the beautiful black earth that was there (everywhere around here is mostly clay).
Anyhow, I was at the laundry mat recently and this woman and I started talking. Turns out she lives on the reservation, so I asked her if they were getting new sewage or something. She told me that the government is putting in water lines to bring in city water. Around here, potable water is easy to find with fairly shallow wells, so it seems pretty silly to me.
Ok...now for the real rant...
There are people living in remote areas, where the government has forced them to live, aka reservations. These people are unable to get any kind of decent water. They're all either really sick, for many generations, or dying. They have been bringing this issue to the government for decades. So what does the government do? They give potable water to the wealthy nations, who already have decent water, and don't help those that need it!?! That way they can say that they have helped. I'm sorry, but that just isn't right.
Every time I hear about how horribly our first nations have been treated, I'm so ashamed to be white.
