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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Ep 713 | The Unspoken Truth About Indian Reservations | Guest: Naomi Schaefer Riley

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.619.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we're joined by Naomi Schaefer Riley, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians," to discuss what's really happening on Native American reservations. Many of us have heard of the disproportionate rates of violence and crime on reservations, but there's little information on why this is happening. One of the biggest problems isn't lack of funds, as many on the Left would have you believe – it's mismanagement of funds. We talk about how the cycle of throwing money at the problem never fixes it and discuss the horror of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, which prioritizes keeping Native American children on reservations over putting them in safe homes. We also discuss poor education rates on reservations and look intro why Native Americans don't seem to have the same protections from crime and violence that the rest of the country does, even though they are U.S. citizens just like anyone else. Then, we ask what we can do to help. --- Timecodes: (01:44) Interview with Naomi begins (05:15) Why do Native Americans stay on reservations? (06:52) Culture on reservations (16:00) Gambling industry (18:15) Native American rights as U.S. citizens (23:20) Oklahoma vs. McGirt (26:17) Social justice & child welfare (35:20) Violence on reservations (39:27) Reservations under Covid (42:44) What can we do? --- Today's Sponsors: Range Leather — highest quality leather, age old techniques and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to rangeleather.com and use coupon code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your first order. Samaritan's Purse — demonstrate God's love in a tangle way by providing a Christmas shoebox to a child. Visit SamaritansPurse.org/OCC to learn how to pack a shoebox or build one online. Healthycell — get 20% off your first order at HealthyCell.com/ALLIE, use promo code 'ALLIE'! Netsuite — gain visibility and control of your financials, planning, budgeting, and inventory so you can manage risk, get reliable forecasts, and improve margins. Go to NetSuite.com/ALLIE to get your one-of-a-kind flexible financing program. --- Links: McGirt v. Oklahoma: https://oklahoma.gov/mcgirt.html --- Relevant Previous Episodes: Ep 603 | How CPS & Foster Care Corruption is Killing Kids | Guest: Naomi Schaefer Riley https://apple.co/3ET8m7v --- Christmas Merch: Use code "BlackFriday" at checkout to get 30% off by Black Friday! Full collection: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey?sort_by=created-descending#MainContent "Thrill of Hope" crewneck (white): https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/a-thrill-of-hope-crewneck-sweatshirt-white "Thrill of Hope" crewneck (green): https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/a-thrill-of-hope-crewneck-sweatshirt-olive "Raise a Joyful Ruckus" crewneck (green): https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/raise-a-joyful-ruckus-crewneck-sweatshirt "Raise a Joyful Ruckus" crewneck (blue): https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/raise-a-joyful-ruckus-crewneck-sweatshirt-blue "You Better Watch Out" sticker: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/you-better-watch-out-sticker --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's the truth about Native American populations and Native American reservations in the United States?

0:07.1

Why are there rates of crime, of poverty, of abuse, of alcoholism so much higher than the general

0:15.5

population? What policies, what court decisions are driving this? And is there anything that we can do

0:22.9

to help? Today I am talking to author Naomi Riley. She wrote a book called The New Trail of Tears.

0:30.5

It is an absolutely fascinating heartbreaking but fascinating conversation about the Native American

0:37.6

population and how progressive policy has driven these populations into destitution and how

0:46.4

desperately things need to change. And we can be a part of that change. So we're going to be talking

0:53.2

about that today with Naomi and this episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.

1:00.0

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1:06.6

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1:21.4

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neck sweatshirt and so you're absolutely going to love it. I can't wait to rock mine and know

1:31.2

that you're going to like yours as well. All right, without further ado, here is our friend Naomi.

1:44.9

Naomi, thank you so much for joining us again. Last time we talked about the foster care system,

1:51.4

such an interesting episode. I love when people uncover kind of the talking points and reveal what's

1:58.4

really going on in a system and you do that really well and a few years ago, a few years ago,

2:05.1

before your foster care book and about the adoption system, you did the same thing with our treatment

2:12.6

of Native Americans and what's really going on there. So tell us about the book that you wrote

2:19.0

a few years ago and why you wrote it. Sure. So the book was called The New Trail of Tears,

2:26.1

how Washington is destroying American Indians. And for a long time, I had been reading the stories that

2:31.6

I think a lot of Americans read about just the tragedies of what's going on on Indian

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