The Pros And Cons Of Tribal Sovereignty

There are a lot of people in this world that do not know that there are many Native American families in the United states that have to live on a reservation. Native Americans were forced to live on reservations due to the relationship between the settlers and the Native Americans had grown increasingly worse as the settlers encroached on Native American territory in the west. Today, many Native Americans cannot leave the reservations because were either born there or do not have the education or enough money to take their families and start a life outside the reservation if they chose to. Due to Reservations, some Native Americans have a very hard time find employment. As of 2014 there was an unemployment rate of up to 11 percent employment rate almost double that of the national rate. (Native Americans Left Behind, 2014). There are very limited …show more content…
(What is Tribal Sovereignty, 2014, 1) But to the federal government they see tribal sovereignty as they are “domestic dependent nations” Native Americans as a ward to the United States and they do not see them as truly sovereign or independent nations. (What is Tribal Sovereignty, 2014, 2) But with everything there are positives and negatives to that of the tribal sovereignty.
The positives of tribal sovereignty for the Native Americans is that is gives them the right to do what they want on their land and not have the United States government get involved in their business, as if it were never invaded and overran by the Europeans and also they don’t have to answer to the U.S government. The negative is that over the years of assimilation most tribes no longer have the mineral rights and natural resources rights to their land and without those rights and very limited means of employment they have no choice but to apply for federal aid for child care, education, and