>>1700968100% accurate
hate to admit to be shameful of my tribe but being raised 18 years on the rez really takes a toll on your mentality. I was so excited to leave when I turned 18 & now over a decade of living abroad, i can say i hardly miss being around my own people. I absolutely do love the landscape and area i grew up in but in the very seldom times i came back home, shit hardly ever changed & that shit was depressing. gov't doesn't care about their own except their immediate family. natives are and always will be in a welfare state, pity party about hwyte ppl "taking their land." younger generation are drunk, nog-tier, bums. gen x & boomers are worse in every aspect but any criticism is "hurr not respecting ur eldurs." the much older generation are really the only sane ones with actual wisdom but are neglected often by their shitty grandkids. Plenty of times i have had to pick up grandmothers walking on the highway with bags of groceries. they're all mostly heartless selfish fucking drunks. times where i came back home for more than a few days i get asked to do chores for them (water horses, get coal, chop wood, fix fences cuz cattle got out etc). their grandkids (my cousins) are off getting drunk or on meth idk i don't fcking care.
more personal stories
>mom, not cop, works very close with tribal police departments across the rez>always talks about rampant crime, DWI's, domestic violence, drug busts>sister works as a nurse and always stories about natives dying from exposure during winter time cuz they get obliterated on firewater>cousins we used to go to church with continually steal from their grandparents, said grandparents don't care anymore and have given up>as far as i could remember, mouthwash and rubbing alcohol was sold behind the counter or locked away in stores on the rez>in or around populated places, trash everywhere. at best, they burn it.cont.
