Picture an American Indian reservation.

Life on the reservation is filled with so much beauty, so little hope.

There are more than 300 reservations in the United States, but if you've seen a video

or read an article about life on the reservation, there is a 98% chance it was about the same

one.

The Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.

This is from Diane Sawyer's ABC 2020 special Hidden America Children of the Plains.

On the dry, windswept hills and plains, 2.2 million acres, there is not a single mall, nor

a movie theater, a big business, a bank, a big house.

That's the take Diane Sawyer and most news organizations have about life on the reservation

for life on one reservation, at least.

Let's go visit another one, one that wasn't featured on the ABC special Hidden America.

I've lived in Tacoma since 1977.

Whenever anybody comes to town, all I do is just pump up the town.

It's a gorgeous place to live.

This is Margot.

She lives in Tacoma, Washington, and loves it so much she was picked for this promotional

video.

I think overall, the personality of Tacoma is just a happy personality.

Folks, we really like living here.

But smack dab in the middle of Tacoma is the reservation of the Piallup Tribe.

The Piallup reservation takes up 46% of Tacoma, a medium-sized city just south of Seattle.

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