Young Native American Voices
- Dec. 14th, 2011 at 8:06 AM
A group of Native American teens created this video rebuttal to the recent ABC television broadcast "Children of the Plains," which presented a bleak, limited view of such youth:
(Nabbed from Debbie Reese at American Indians in Children's Literature.)
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I've known a lot of people from out there - Lakota culture is the primary one I have been most involved with. In fact I am having dinner with a dear friend from the Rosebud Reservation tonight. They ARE still very much a vibrant, warm, wonderful people, very much a living culture, and they are doing everything they possibly can to survive and thrive and preserve their traditional ways, while still moving forward into the future.
That being said, they definitely do face some nearly (but NOT) insurmountable obstacles. Shannon County, where Pine Ridge is located, last I heard had the single lowest standard of living of ANY US county. Unemployment is huge, as are suicide, domestic violence, and alcoholism (even though it's actually a dry county - the white bars and packages stores over the line in Nebraska make a killing.) There are no easy solutions. But there are solutions. Education. Jobs. Support for the youth. Of course most of those things take money, and that's something that, for social programs and education especially, has been in short supply in recent years even in the best of places. But improving attitudes is free. And good for those kids for taking a fantastic stand to show the U.S. public that they are so much more than people want to think they are. I find that very very encouraging, an I hope it gets millions and millions of hits. Thanks for posting this.
The issue of blame is a complicated one, but it's a shame that the 20/20 special seems to have glossed over the majority of the context in favour of simply presenting the part of the story that they think will get the highest ratings (no doubt.) Good on these kids for standing up to show their side of the whole thing.