• redchert@lemmygrad.ml
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    There were also white towns that made money selling alcoholic beverages and drugs to native reservations. Usually long periods of starvation cause high rates of diabetes (amongst other symptoms) in a populace - today the lakota people have one of the highest percentage of diabetes per capita in the world.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      That is literally what Rapid City is built on.

      Meanwhile the average household income at Pine Ridge (not individual income, whole household) is aboud 10-13k per year.