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Excess alcohol consumption is widespread in Native American communities. Native Americans use and misuse alcohol and other illicit substances at younger ages, and at higher rates, than that of all other ethnic groups. [90] Consequently, their age-adjusted alcohol-related mortality rate is 5.3 times greater than the general population.
Native American reservation inequality underlies a range of societal issues that affect the lives of Native American populations residing on reservations in the United States. About one third of the Native American population, about 700,000 people, lives on an Indian Reservation in the United States. [ 1 ]
Once their territories were incorporated into the United States, surviving Native Americans were denied equality before the law and often treated as wards of the state. [35] Many Native Americans were moved to reservations—constituting 4% of U.S. territory. In a number of cases, treaties signed with Native Americans were violated.
Some Native Americans now carry ... the Native American Rights Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union issued guidance urging people to contact their tribal leaders if they run into problems ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Native American politics remain divided over different issues such as assimilation, education, healthcare, and economic factors that affect reservations. As a multitude of nations living within the United States, the Native American peoples face conflicting opinions within their tribes, essentially those living on federally approved reservations.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. Indigenous peoples of the United States This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (October 2024) Ethnic group Native Americans ...
Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), who was the first California Native American elected to the Legislature, argued that the state needed a separate system for missing Indigenous people ...