Speaker Pelosi,
Recently, the Prime Ministers of Canada and Austraila have issued formal apologies to their indigenous communities for past atrocities at the hands of their federal governments. How do you feel about the current status of Native Americans and Inuit peoples in the United States? Have you seen a change in poverty rates, access to higher education, health care, etc... in your time in office? What can congress do to improve the quality of life for Indigenous communities, both on and off reservations? What can it do differently than it already has done?
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Once again, you are assuming it should be a policy of the government to improve the quality of life for some people in the U.S.
Not trure. That is not the job of our government.
If you personally want to do something, if you personally want to volunteer your time and or your money, then you
make the difference. And if you can organize others to join you, then you do that, if that is the call in your heart.
Although, there are already charities that do help them.
There is no law against doing good.
But there are limits imposed on our government, or there used to be, as to what they could do. For nearly the last 80 years
many have voted and legislated as if our government is supposed to do everything they can possible think up for government, and the American taxpayers, to do. Stop.
Well, in this case, the Federal Government has treaties with these Indigenous Nations. So they do, in fact, have a mandate to uphold.