Essay On Native American Reservation

A reservation is a territory delimited by a federal law, managed by the office of Indian Affairs attached to the US Department of the Interior, and whose use and profit are reserved to a Native people. Reservations are only lent to their occupants and remain the property of the states under US law. Some spaces partially sold to non-Indian are sources of many administrative, political and legal difficulties. Half of women in reservations have been raped, sexual assaulted or kidnapped. According to the US department of justice Native women in reservations are more affected by homicide than other women in the rest of the country. Native women rarely complain about the violence they suffer, their silence is caused by the distance between them and a forensic doctor and a prosecutor. Domestic violence is perpetrated by Native men, but 86% of rape and sexual assault against Native women is committed outsiders, this information is provided by the US Department of justice. On February 28, the
Reservations were often the only possible refuge for the defeated tribes, the only way to avoid the total extermination that many settled demanded. It is always under the pressure of the colonists, farmers, breeders, miners, railway builders, land speculators that the reservations were constituted, then reduced. Reservations were administered by a federal agent, whom was an outsider (white man) often recruited from political friends of the ruling party in Washington. Poorly paid, exiled to isolated places, Indian agent found compensation for these disadvantages by practicing prevarication widespread corruption. Some of those Indian agent literally starved native people who was in their charge, many Native people's revolts did not have other causes. These benefits in kind were considered part of their salary and the administration closed their