ABC News Visits the Lakota Reservation

This show exposes American misguided policies. Taxpayer funds are given to foreign governments. Their leaders often pocket the money and do not help their own people. These days the Obama Harvard-Chicago gang is borrowing money to give it away. Celebrities travel to foreign countries to help people living in poverty. They ignore the thousands of young people abandoned by government and corporations right here on the US mainland. My reaction to this great feature is what took you so long?

http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VD55148316/2020-1014-children-of-the-plains

20/20 10/14: Children of the Plains

40:50 | Aired on ABC 10/14/11

Diane Sawyer reports on the young dreamers of the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Former Drug Dealers Run Smoke Shops on Reservations


"Since the mid-1990s, New York governors fearful of stirring up tribal unrest have instructed state tax officials to leave the smoke shops alone."
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Rodney Morrison a smoke shop operator on a reservation said, "Every now and then you have to bite people." This was after a rival was shot dead.
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Of the people who run the smoke shops on reservations "None of the men are Indian, but all of them are married or connected romantically to Indian women, and that entitled them to run businesses on the reservation."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/indian_smoke_screen_GovfmBV1tSj1Hi5jJlCggL

Indian smoke screen
Ex-drug dealers rule reservation tax-free-cig sales
By DAVID B. CARUSO
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:42 AM, September 17, 2009
Posted: 3:20 AM, September 16, 2009