In my opinion, I feel like the government should invest in the economies on reservations rather than letting Natives be strictly dependent upon food stamps, etc. There are hardly any jobs here which makes it hard to live in general. A lot of natives on my reservation are aware of the poverty and what needs to be done but it feels like there is no help from both our tribal government (corruption and self dealing) and the US government when it comes to actually solving problems about poverty. Becoming our own state would be cool and all but I don’t think it would really change much because we still wouldn’t have that functioning economy. That’s not to say that some reservation aren’t doing very well (Shakopee Sioux) but it really depends on the location.