Does the native american (Indian / NDN) community feel that Obama is keeping his promises?

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Read that Michael Black, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, has been named director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The article also states:

"Black joins a growing list of other Native Americans from South Dakota who have assumed prominent posts in the Obama administration. Yvette Roubideaux, a member of the Rosebud tribe, is director of the Indian Health Service, and Lillian Sparks, a Lakota woman of the Rosebud and Oglala Sioux Tribes, recently was named commissioner of the administration for Native Americans."

I'm just wondering if these changes are making any positive changes for the native community.  

If you're native I would like to hear your perspective.

Kanien:kaha&#39;ka-[]-[]-^-[]-[] · Accepted Answer

until i see changes that actually benefit native people, those appointments are like the white house china...gets replaced every 4 years for show and nothing more. 

where were those indians when congress passed a law shutting down native businesses? there wasn't even one word said by them against it. where are they when the IRS tries to steal land from one of the poorest tribes in the country? haven't seen them speaking up about how illegal it is.

nope. unless things change soon, obama will forever be known as hanadahguyus..the destroyer of towns, a name worn by everry single president since washington ordered every single native village burned in new york...even those of the oneida who were allies during the revolution.

Lakota Dream · Answer

Well, being a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and also working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, I can honestly say I have not seen a change for the better.  I did support Obama and we did vote for him, and I also hope he remembers how much of a difference the Native peoples votes made in his election.

glymph · Answer

for a lot of human beings he has now earned the call hanadahguyus (city destroyer) and has shown that as quickly because it includes interior reach human beings he's particularly like all the others till now him. he has already broken his promise to seek for suggestion from with our international locations till now making changes which will impression us and to maintain commerce open. I haven't any concept what those indians appointed to his administration are doing yet they are in no way conversing up for the folk. i assume like a great number of who bounce into the invaders boat, they have forgotten who they are. passing a regulation that efficiently makes our greatest industries unlawful isn't helping us help ourselves. settling a 15 billion greenback debt owed via the government for 3 billion particularly, isn't helping interior reach human beings. in a years time he has already shown he's not any buddy of indigenous human beings in north u . s . of america. he's one greater in a protracted line of presidents who did what they could to interrupt us.

Anonymous · Answer

Well truth fully, I haven't noticed anything. And I haven't left my reservation (Navajo) for well over a year; but time will tell I guess.

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Does the native american (Indian / NDN) community feel that Obama is keeping his promises?

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