Native American Population Culture

The Native Americans of today tend to be either reservation Indians or urban Indians, and since World War II the urban Indian population has increased greatly, reducing the size of the reservation population. This has been one of the reasons for the destruction of the Indians' own culture:

For better or worse, urban Indians are more intimately involved in the dominant culture than their reservation brethren, though even the latter have become "urbanized"--more sophisticated--through travel, school, movies, television, and their own production of news and entertainment (Jennings 399).

The reservation of the Chippewa is described as part of

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ssible (Graves 275). The failure of Native Americans to maintain their culture is in part an economic issue, for the social problems of the reservation have been exacerbated by the fact that Native Americans have not been able to achieve an economic level to sustain the community. This has added to problems such as alcoholism and the breakup of the family, with the family being an essential element in maintaining the culture of the Indian tribes. The lack of economic power in the Native American community is related to a long-standing unemployment problem. It was ascertained in 1960 that the economic position of the Indian was less favorable than for any other American minority group, and Indian income was low; employment was meager, unstable, and temporary; and the Indian land base was smaller than in the previous decade. Indian health was also poor when contrasted with whites, as was Indian housing, education, and local government. Little had changed since 1934 (Jorgensen 72-73). These economic problems continue to this day, though some tribes have been forging their own way of raising themselves out of the economic morass into which the majority society has plunged them. Their effort alone has involved a shift in tr
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