My first reason why I believe the Native Americans should get money for the injustices, is that the Indians deserve their dignity back. The Natives Americans were known to have their own beautiful religions …show more content…
This money can help them rebuild their community like their schools. “Native students are the only student population that did not improve their reading and math testing scores in grades 4 and 8 from 2005-2011 (The Education Trust, 2013).” “High school graduation rates are also among the lowest of any population. In the states with the most American Indian and Alaska Native students, less than 50% of Native students graduate, on average. (The Civil Rights Project, 2010).” If we give the Natives money to fix their schools their scores can go up. With this money the can also fix and make jobs. President Obama said “That involves investing in early childhood education, fixing the schools in those communities, being willing to work in terms of job creation and job training. Those are serious investments.” If they invest in their community they can get and make jobs. To conclude I believe that if we give the Native Americans Money They can fix the …show more content…
The Indians had a nice beautiful life until the Americans came and took their land from them. Now the Natives suffer from many things like one of the highest poverty and death rate, broken communities. With this money it can be a reparations for what the injustice the Americans have inflicted on the Natives. Some might argue that we should give the land back because it was theirs. They might believe this because the Natives ancestors were born and raised on the land that the Americans took from them. This may be true but, we can’t move people out of their own homes where they live and might be struggling in today. We shouldn’t make the same disaster that we did with the Natives but instead with ourselves this time. This is why if we give the money to Natives they can rebuilding their communities and current families can stay in their home and not have to suffer the bad times the Indians have suffered. Both groups Land and Money(Water) can agree that the Natives deserve something back. "At this Reservation, people have seen over time that the U.S. has taken more and more land, and they've lost huge territories. There are clear examples of broken treaties. It is clear that the Black Hills was given to them by treaty, and that treaty was just ignored the United States in the