Native Americans against Obama have created a video explaining many of the issues that Obama promised to address. Obama said that "Few have been ignored in Washington as much as the Native Americans, the first Americans". He said that Native Americans would be a top priority. However, on a bill regarding improvement for housing and the high unemployment rates on reservations, he voted absent. The Native Americans feel that they cannot vote for someone who will make claims about aiding their situation, and not living up to those claims. They are looking for someone who will address their situation, and they feel Obama is not their candidate.
The video goes on to express many of the issues depicted in Reservation Blues. The issues described were poverty, unemployment, poor school funding, poor housing, sicknesses, starvation, and poor political representation. I felt that this related to what we have been studying in class because it makes a connection between Alexie's descriptions of reservation living to the real world. Watch the video and voice your opinion.
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