FIRST OF ALL: Native Americans are forced to apply for dual citizenship if they live on a reservation. Why is it that Native AMERICANS who were the ORIGINAL AMERICANS have to apply for AMERICAN citizenship?????? THAT is not right at all. Second of all: Native Americans living on reservations are amoung the POOREST of America's population because there are NOT sufficient schools on the reservations and to come off of the reservation is to lose whatever jobs, landholdings, status, ect. and have to start from scratch. 80% of the Native population is BELOW the poverty rate and do NOT recieve federal aid from the US unlike all of the other who can suck it dry for all its worth. WE are entitled to go to college FREE of cost because the US gov't kind of owes it to us after all of the bastardization of our culture. WE do NOT have the same entitlements of all the rest of you "Americans" because we are recognized as a soverign nation and therefore IGNORED by the US gov't. Oh yeah, sure... theres hundreds of treaties and what we wanted is what we got (to be left ALONE on our reservations) however the US gov't continues to steal and take away that land. WE are going through that right now in NYS. WE are not entitled to insurance or healthcare benefits that is alotted and taken for granted in the US. WE do not get social security. When WE travel between states or countries, we get SEARCHED because we are not considered US citizens and we have to present a CARD wherever we go in ADDITION to a licence whenever we make a purchase. WE are not aloud state aid to go to college so therefore we have to scrounge for scholarships which there are only a limited amount of each year, therefore leaving some people without an education. WE do not get disability if we get hurt on the job. WE do not have it as easily as everything thinks we do. Open your eyes. Visit a reservation. I don't understand after so many years why there is still so much injustice, so much misunderstanding, and that the US gov't still wants to eradicate us from the face of the earth. I'M MOVING TO CANADA!

As a last thought, WE are the nations SMALLEST minority... so quit your right-wing complaining