ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Alcoholism, California Hide Trade
29 May 2020
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Pine ridge location"s poverty could be classified as a third world countries. 80% unemployment rate, average life expectancy of 50 years old. Alcoholism is a major problem (80%); alcohol is illegal in some locations because of the problems it has caused. Debate over whether to legalize alcohol - some people want it to help with the area"s revenue, others don"t because they think it will lead to more crime. Over 300 indian reservations across the us - 1. 8 million native americans. Wounded knee - over 300 lakota sioux were indiscriminately killed by american cavalry; barbaric and tragic massacre of innocent people. Pine ridge is considered to be the poorest county of the us. Basketball is played to keep young people away from bad behavior; very important part of their modern day culture. Sioux nation - bastardized form of who they are; they are the lakota (means. The people ); sioux = french bastardization reference to them.
