Should Us Give Money To Native Americans Essay

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What do you think the United States should do to make up for the injustices it inflicted on native americans ? I believe that the United States should give money to the Native Americans. Even though the money would not make up for the lives lost and everything else but it will give new opportunities to the native americans right now. If we give money back to the native americans we should give it to them in a beneficial way. One way we could give the money is to give it to the native american families that are struggling to pay for their children's or highschool or college. From the article indian country media network , it says “Recent statistics from the Bureau of Indian Affairs have noted that between 29 percent and 36 percent of …show more content…
Even though money doesn’t create happiness , it will still help them out in the long run. Native americans are killing themselves because they don’t feel like there worth anything. Made it’s because we have done in the past but we need to stop this because according to huffpost “ among Native Americans, 40 percent of those who die by suicide are between the ages of 15 and 24. And among young adults ages 18 to 24, Native American have higher rates of suicide than any other ethnicity, and higher than the general population.” We need to support the native americans with what they need. We should support them with money. Buying food , clothes , and ect for they depending on the way they live and what they really need. Then finally with the native americans already on crisis level with suicides , we still need to worry about the native americans that aren’t getting the help. There are about 5,220,579 native americans that’s about 1.6% of the united states. Thats alot and we need to make sure we give back to all of them because our actions we’re not okay and the native americans need to know we want to make it better with them and make it better for

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