Social Recognition Issues of the Sioux Tribe

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Social recognition Issues of the Sioux Tribe

The Sioux Tribe, as well as various others have been struggling for recognition by the federal state government. The Sioux Tribe itself has only been just recognized since the year of 1975 since the USTDC had administered and approved the social and economical development of these people (Daniels 7). The USTDC may have approved this act, along with broadening various new programs to socially enhance the Sioux and other tribes, but would not have the power or ability in order to push past the thoughts of people who opposed the idea of accepting Native Americans into modern society. Due to the social isolationism, whether or not the Sioux Tribe would want it or not; the tribe experiences poverty and unemployment causing the people to have economical downfalls as they travel deeper into a spiraling depression. The Sioux tribe also deals with radicals who oppose any type of rights to be reserved for Native Americans, some will go as far as to push Natives, such as the Sioux tribe from their own sacred, belonging land.

The federal government has pushed for acts involving educational development as well as economical growth within the tribes, in hopes of increasing benefits to fight health issues as well as depressions within the Sioux tribe and others. Native American men who realize the social troubles in the Sioux tribe usually must leave their sacred lands in hopes of finding education and employment in the modern world in order to financially support their families. Many children struggle with the absence of a parent, causing the average of the Native American teenager to have the highest suicidal rate out of any racial group. The Sioux Tribe may have been recognized by the federal...

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...nd acceptance or encouragement of becoming a productive citizen with an education in the modern world.

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