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a Veteran is good enough to live in the country he served

There are no available statistics on the number of United States Military Veterans living in exile, estimated to be in the thousands. Veterans are deported to their countries of origin, including Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Kenya and Germany.

Our Montagnard Allies never abandoned an american soldier

All Relations United Director Lorelei Horse Stands Waiting and Director Bryan Brewer visiting Montagnard Veterans and their families in Charlotte, NC. In 1975, there were 7 million Dega/Montagnard people. By 2015, only 500,000 remained. For the Montagnards, the war has never ended...

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Pine ridge indian reservation

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION IS THE POOREST COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES

Statistics:


  • Rapid City, South Dakota, is the nearest town of size (population  approximately 57,700) for those who can travel to find work. It is  located 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine  Ridge is Denver, Colorado, located some 350 miles away.
  • 97% of the population lives far  below the U.S. federal poverty line with a median household income  ranging between $2,600 and $3,500 per year.
  • There is no industry, technology or commercial infrastructure to  provide employment for its residents, contributing to its 90%  unemployment rate.
  • There are no banks, motels, discount stores, and the one grocery  store of moderate size is tasked with providing for the entire  community.
  • There is a 70% high school dropout rate.
  • The average life expectancy on the Reservation is 47 years for men and 52 years for women.
  • Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S. national average.
  • Infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent, and about 300% higher than the U.S. national average.
  • There’s an estimated average of 17 people living in each family  home, a home that may only have two to three rooms. Some Reservation  families are forced to sleep on dirt floors.
  • Over 33% of homes have no electricity or basic water and sewage  systems, forcing many to carry (often contaminated) water from local  rivers daily for their personal needs.
  • At least 60% of homes on the Reservation need to be demolished and  replaced due to infestation of potentially fatal black mold; however,  there are no insurance or government programs to assist families in  replacing their homes.
  • Weather is extreme on the Reservation. Severe winds are always a  factor. Summer temperatures reach well over 110 degrees and winters  bring bitter cold and can reach -50 degrees below zero or worse.

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America's native prisoners of war - Aaron Huey

 Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine  Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota  people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five  years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking  history lesson. 

CURRENT NATIVE AMERICAN STATISTICS

Native American Statistics in the United States

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Employment:

  • Native Americans have the lowest employment rate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012).
  • In the poorest Native counties, only about 1/3 of men in Native American communities have full-time, year-round employment (Beal, 2004).

Education:

  • Native students are the only student population that did not improve their reading and math testing scores in grades 4 and 8 from 2005-2011 (The Education Trust, 2013).
  • High school graduation rates are also among the lowest of any population. In the states with the most American Indian and Alaska Native students, less than 50% of Native students graduate, on average. (The Civil Rights Project, 2010)

Housing & Infrastructure:

  • The percentage of homes that are overcrowded on reservations is 3-6 times higher than the percentage of overcrowded homes in the U.S. as a whole (Housing Assistance Council, 2013; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003; U.S. Census, 2000).
  • As of 2011, there were over 120,000 tribal homes lacking access to basic water sanitation services (EPA, 2012).
  • It is estimated that almost 1 in 10 American Indian homes are without safe and reliable water (Indian Health Service, 2011).
  • More than 60% of the roads within the Indian Reservation Roads system are earth or gravel (NCAI, 2012).
  • Nearly a quarter of IRR bridges are classified as deficient.


ADDICTION:

* The prevalence of methamphetamine (ME) use among American Indians and  Native Alaskans (AI/NAs) is strikingly high in comparison to other  ethnic groups in the U.S 

  Almost 12 percent of the deaths among  Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than  three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal  report says.      

INCARCERATION:

*Native Americans are incarcerated at a rate 38% higher than the national average.

  • Native American youths are 30% more likely than whites to be referred to juvenile court than have charges dropped, according to National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
  • Native Americans are more likely to be killed by police than any other racial group, according to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
  • Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men;  Native American women are incarcerated at six times the rate of white  women.
  • Native Americans fall victim to violent crime at more than double the rate of all other US citizens. Eighty-eight percent of violent crime  committed against Native American women is carried out by non-Native  perpetrators.


MORE STATISTICS ON NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH:

*16  percent of students at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools in 2001 reported having attempted suicide in the preceding 12 months.

*8.4 percent of Native children are in foster care. 

*Violence, including intentional injuries, homicide and suicide account for 75% of deaths for American Indian youth age 12-20.

*High school dropout rates are double the national average over 50 percent in states with the highest Native populations.

*Death rates are 2 to 5 times the rate of Whites in the same age groups resulting from higher levels of suicide and a variety of risky behaviors.

*Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death and 2.5 times the national rate for youth in the 15-24 age group.

*22% of females and 12% of males reported to have attempted suicide in the past year.

CURRENT STATISTICS FOR THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA:

New mexico statistics

 

17 Scary Facts about Alcohol and Drug Addiction in New Mexico 

June 18, 2015 by Julian Sutter sageclinic.org


1. 8 of the 10 leading causes of death in NM are linked to the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs

.2. New Mexico has the second highest drug overdose  mortality rate in the United States, with 23.8 per 100,000 people  suffering drug overdose fatalities.

3. NM has the highest alcohol-related death rate since 1997.

4. Over the past 30 years, NM has consistently had one of the highest alcohol-related death rates in the U.S.

5. Negative consequences of alcohol use in NM other  than death include domestic violence, crime, poverty, unemployment,  chronic liver disease, car accidents, other injuries, mental illness,  and a host of other medical issues.

6. The economic cost of alcohol abuse in NM (in 2006) was more than $2.5 billion. This translates to $1,250 per person

.7. Death rates related to alcohol increase with age

.8. Alcohol-related and drug-related death rates are significantly higher for males than females.

9. American Indians have the highest alcohol-related death rates among all ethnicities.

10. Counties with the most alcohol and drug-related  deaths between 2007-2011: Bernalillo, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Santa Fe,  Dona Ana, and McKinley.

11. The rate of alcohol-related injury deaths in N.M. is almost double the national rate.

12. Rates of death related to alcohol-attributable  poisoning exceeded those of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents and  are considered the leading cause of alcohol-related injury deaths  between the years of 2007 and 2011.

13. The highest drug-induced death rate was found among Hispanic males, followed by White males.

14. Unintentional drug overdoses make up more than 80% of drug-induced deaths.

15. The most common drugs involved in unintentional overdose deaths between 2007-2011 were:

  • prescription opioids (methadone, oxycodone, morphine) 50%
  • heroin (33%)
  • tranquilizers/muscle relaxers (27%)
  • cocaine (25%)
  • and antidepressants (16%)

16. In 2007-2008, New Mexico ranked first among all states for illicit drug dependence among persons age 12 and older.

17. 471 persons died because of alcohol or drugs in  New Mexico in 2007. This is compared to the number of persons in New  Mexico who died from motor vehicle accidents (379) and firearms (295) in  the same year. New Mexico drug-induced deaths (23.9 per 100,000  population) exceeded the national rate (12.7 per 100,000). 


Opiod Facts for New Mexico

  • Since 2008, New Mexico has had one of the highest rates of drug overdose death in the United States.
  • Between 2008-2012, almost every county in New Mexico had a higher drug overdose death rate than the rate for the entire United States.
  • In some New Mexico counties, the overdose death rates were more than five times the national rate.
  • According to CDC, New Mexico had the third highest drug overdose death rate in the nation in 2013, the second highest in 2014, and remained in the highest age-adjusted rate category in the nation in 2015.
  • The New Mexico Department of Health estimates that in 2007 alone prescription opioid abuse, and misuse cost New Mexico $890 million, taking into account costs such as excess medical and prescription costs, lost earnings from premature deaths, and the costs of correctional facility and police services.


Native Americans Hit Hard By Opiod Addiction

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico -- an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction -- met with the U.S. Justice Department over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans.


And both sides say much more needs to be done.

Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohris spoke with representatives and police chiefs from the eight northern New Mexico Native American pueblos Tuesday as part of a push to combat heroin-related deaths across the state, including Indian Country. They discussed ways for better treatment, the need for more law enforcement resources and the desire for an educational blitz targeting American Indian children as young as 8.


“Here in New Mexico we are facing an epidemic,” U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez said. “One of the (pueblo) governors brought pictures of these hypodermic needles they are picking up on a daily basis.”


New Mexico’s drug overdose death rate was the second highest in the nation in 2014, according to the latest available numbers.


For years, the northern New Mexico city of Espanola and northern Rio Arriba County have had some of the nation’s highest heroin-related death rates. The crisis has overwhelmed cash-strapped law enforcement agencies and emergency workers who often struggle to combat Mexican traffickers who provide users lethal “black tar” heroin via a sophisticated system that resembles pizza delivery.


“It’s a wildfire that’s taking off,” Pueblo of Pojoaque Gov. Joseph Talachy said. “It started off small, but then it took off.”
But now the users have gone underground, and the pueblo struggles to bring non-American Indians to justice because of jurisdiction, Talachy said.
According to the new numbers released Tuesday by the New Mexico Department of Health, Rio Arriba County had the highest drug overdose death rate in the state with 81.4 deaths per 100,000 residents last year.


“The fact is, our state continues to suffer from drug abuse. One overdose death is one too many,” New Mexico Health Secretary Designate Lynn Gallagher said.


But health officials say heroin and opioid addiction​ especially has hit American Indian communities across the country as the number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers has soared overall, claiming the lives of 165,000 people in the U.S. since 2000.
A National Institute on Drug Abuse survey found that American Indian students’ annual heroin and OxyContin use was about two to three times higher than the national averages from 2009 to 2012.


Heroin and opioid abuse have even stuck in the most remote parts of the country among American Indians.


In Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, for example, state health officials say the isolated area of Alaska Native villages and 25,000 residents has around 500 people addicted to opioids. Most of these Alaska villages don’t have treatment centers for drug users.
Earlier this month, tribal officials in the southwestern Alaska village of Quinhagak banished six people over illegal drugs and alcohol. The move came after the village of 700 residents saw four apparent heroin overdoses in one day.


Meanwhile, a nonprofit prescription drug abuse prevention program in Maine is helping make available the drug Narcan to the state’s five Native American tribes. Narcan, whose generic name is naloxone, is a prescription drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. The program set up five clinics on tribal land thanks to a federal grant.
The Justice Department meeting in Albuquerque is part of the New Mexico Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education Initiative.

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