Obama Promises Help for Native Americans

On Thursday morning president Obama spoke to tribal Native American leaders about growing concerns and problems they have. Many Native American reservations are stricken with poverty. "Some reservations face unemployment rates of up to 80 percent, and one quarter of all Native Americans live in poverty." Many homes in reservations do not have basic living nesessities, such as electricity and safe water supply. "More than 14 percent of reservation homes lack electricity and 12 percent lack access to a safe water supply". Obama promised Native Americans that he and his administration would work with them to help solve various dilemmas they have on reservations.

In my opinion, I think that Obama and the government should do everything to help these people. I admire that president Obama has promised to help the Native Americans with their problems and especially through these hard times with the economy in a recession. The Native Americans should defenately get an oportunity to be helped by the government, especially by how they were treated by the U.S. government in the past. I believe that everyone should have basic nesessities in which to live. I hope the government will not just promise to help and end up not doing anything like in past events.

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