I don't know about that homie, maybe where you're from in the Northwest is different but all of the Natives I grew up with in the midwest including some of my own family is a whole different story.
Read up a little on Pine Ridge in South Dakota, second biggest rez in the US. 97% live under the federal poverty level, 70% never make it out of highschool, 150% higher suicide rate then the rest of the country. All of this due to alcohol and drugs. Pine Ridge got so bad they made it illegal to buy and sell alcohol on the reservation itself (but of course liquor store popped up all over the borders.)
Stats About Pine Ridge
Some key quotes from that article I posted:
- Alcoholism affects eight out of ten families on the Reservation.
- The death rate from alcohol-related problems on the Reservation is 300% higher than the remaining US population.
Pine Ridge is only an example, most reservations all across the midwest is exactly the same. I lived in Pine Ridge and Eagle Butte in SD at a point in my life and both were worse then any big city ghetto i've ever seen and all of this is due to the insane alcoholism percentage among the people spread all throughout the midwest.