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This may just be that I'm really naiive about it, but if they really want to get off the reservation to make somethng more of themselves, they can right? Or are there rules against it?
One of my coworkers is Native American and she works in an office for a huge corporation. She doesn't participate in her tribe stuff but she says it's OK because she went to college and is making something of herself.
Her boyfriend I believe is also Native American.. he "looks" Native American but lives in the city limits (i.e. not on a reservation) and participates with stuff that his tribe does (cultural and stuff like that). She has told me sooooooo many stories of the tribes using the casino money for things that it wasn't supposed to be used for and how everything is "corrupt" (her word, not mine) and basically a huge mess with them.
She does some volunteer work for a children's home there where basically all the kid's parents there are in jail which is a really really sad situation.
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