Tuesday, November 18, 2008

PBS: "Lawless Lands"

After watching this video the "Lawless Lands" I became aware of these issues that continue today, yet no one is really aware of it. I found it sad that the justice system does very little for Indian reservations and its citizens. We still see racism and discrimination amongst the Native Americans and we as American service workers set their reported cases aside. One thing that came up to mind is that these cases are resent cases so why aren't we doing anything about it? If this was happening in the cities and to "AMERICANS" the cases would be solved and taken to consideration, but why not to the Natives? The FBI does nothing and in the video itself there was proof that the Indian reservations themselves received money to help the Indian country for new workers to help with those cases yet nothing was done an the money was taken from them after the 9/11 events. By doing this many cases reported within the Indian Country have been forgotten and set aside. Criminals have not been punished and are still around, while those affected receive no relief and remain affected with no justice. Some cases have even been pending for about four or five years that the victims themselves lose hope, give up on those cases and believe that nothing will happen in order for them to gain justice. The Denver post has done a great job in exposing us with the knowledge because much of this is not heard and I believe that we should all have justice it is AMERICA, the "land of dreams" why cant it be equal amongst all races? In the end we see that reservations do not receive the same justice system and it is sad that these social workers do not feel like investigating these crimes for the simple reason that they are natives and would rather handle those white collar crimes.

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