Although unemployment and poverty rates on Minnesota's Indian reservations dropped by a third during the 1990s, serious problems still persist on outstate reservations, according to the Census Bureau.

The poverty rate at Fond du Lac ranged from 19 percent for families to 26 percent for individuals, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, the most recent year for which reservation poverty numbers are ...

MADISON–Land was once set aside as Native American reservations because it was undesirable and low in resources, but now interested Native Americans may have economic leverage in the growing industry ...

The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports in our series, ...

Overdose deaths on Alamo reservation increased 306% in past year Lack of police and rehab centers hinders overdose prevention efforts Generational trauma and poverty contribute to drug crisis on ...

The 2020 census missed nearly 1 of every 17 Native Americans who live on reservations, an undercount that could very well lead to insufficient federal funding for essential health, nutrition, and ...

It is nothing new to say that America's Indian reservations are awash in poverty, propped up by welfare, and that along with generations of welfare have come generations of other social ills: drugs ...

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