Jaw-Dropping What Brad Pitt Is Doing To American Indian Reservations

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29. Where are the neighbors?

Those are pretty, and I am sure they will offer a better place to live than some of what a few have to put up with on areas of some of the most gut-grinding poverty we manufacture in this country, across many regions in the Native Nations, at a cultural level which this country helped create. 20 houses. Good. They need them.

That said...

"Using participatory democracy principles, Pitt’s organization organizers met with families and community leaders about their needs and their vision for their new homes, and how the builders can preserve the culture of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, such as doorways facing east or north and using tribally significant colors."

They are cold in the winter, we offer them design assistance.

Has anyone ever actually been onto these places? Amazing, warm, deep, caring people, with a completely different (some argue better) set of priorities, and a culture which really doesn't reward beating up on each other like ours does..they fight, but at least it's personal

Still, unless you drop a few non-running used cars into the picture, this is all fiction anyway.

A pretty house dropped into the middle of abject poverty, where many people don't even have food and sustainable heat in the worst winters we have (to this point anyway) is an interesting thought.

Wait till they build it and come back for pictures and there are 50 people inside trying to stay warm, a few skins, some sage and some sour roots hanging all over those railings and from that roof, and whatever the cameraman steps on outside the door squishes, wasn't meant to be compressed.

And then the owner loses it at the pow-wow, gambling.

That wouldn't turn a head among those good people. Because they know that people are more important than things. Which is why we had to segregate them. Can't have that kind of thinking being successful.

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Fort Deck, America’s ninth-largest Native American reservation, has over 6,000 tribal members living on the 2-million-acre reservation. Over 600 people are waiting for housing. That means overcrowding is all too common.

The Washington Post has reported unemployment is over 50 percent on the reservations, with approximately three out of every four children live in poverty, and the cycle of abuse imposed on the First Nation Peoples includes widespread problems with alcohol and methamphetamines exist in the communities there.
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Thank you for this.