Being A Minority In A Country

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reservations are in terrible need of repair as well as teacher that are capable and experienced. Many students have also been disabled due to prenatal alcohol and drug abuse by their parents, making it even more difficult for them to learn in such inadequate environments. To add to this list of problems, students in reservation communities go into the educational system with feelings of discord and doubt, making the psychological part of learning harder to incorporate into their already skeptical outlook. According to the Main Findings page at surgeongeneral.gov, because of detached communities they have poor mental health facilities available to them for treatment. Native Americans’ suicide rate is 50% higher than the rest of the nation. This is due to the lack of research done on this group, thus making it problematic when trying to create an adequate system to help with the mental health issues that they face. Currently their situation remains the same and Native Americans are at the bottom of the economic and educational ladder.
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