Native American Lands in Poverty Set aside land for Native Americans are coming under great poverty. Each year the budget for these lands are starting to get smaller. One family part of the Olga Sioux tribe living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in dier needs of a new home.The family has punched a hole in the ceiling for a chimney for their wood stove, a necessity given the harshness of the winters but a fire hazard in the dry climate.The Red Cloud-Bissonettes are one of about 1,500 families on a waiting list at a local housing improvement program that was recently told that it is being shut down. “These are real, real low-income people,” said Andre Janis, the housing program’s director. “If we go away, a lot of people are going
