Barcon
Well-Known Member
Cheers for that. I live in Canada and know all too well that the natives are treated very differently from the rest of us.Native American Reservations, which families were forcibly moved to, are set up in such a way that they fall outside of a lot of the advantages of living in the US. They're taxed by the same state but don't have access to all of it's benefits and services, such as welfare, health insurance etc.
Of course nowadays they have the right to leave the reservation, where once they didn't, but the fact they were moved there in the first place, without fully enfranchising those who stay, means they are systematically shut out.
They are often kept from voting too by Voter ID laws, where their own documents are not recognised and they are not entitled to standard documentation.
I didn’t realize that they were denied rights in the states though.