Native Americans

1. About 50 percent of the native Indian population lives on reservations. The majority of the reservations are situated west of the Mississippi River.

2. Unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, high rates of diabetes and heart disease are a concern. Because of all the prejudices they get unemployed, and this leads to poverty and so on, alcoholism and then the rest of the remaining.

3. Limitations on tribal powers of self-government include the same limitations applicable to states; for example, neither tribes nor states have the power to make war, engage in foreign relations, or coin money.

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