Have you ever wondered....?

 Have you ever wondered about the peoples living on the reservations?

Something caught my eye a few months ago on my personal FB. It was a funeral announcement for a young man from a reservation 7 hours from me. Why did that come up on my page? I have only one friend that grew up on a reservation but that was in a completely different state.

From that moment forward I have been educating myself on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. And I can not begin to wrap my head around the hardships they go through each and every day. 

In the next posts I'm going to do my best to spread awareness and become an advocate for these individuals. Many people are fed so many lies about Native Americans, that they are "handed" money from the casinos and they shouldn't be so poor. I'm here to tell you that, while some do get large checks from the native run casinos, there are many reservations that are so poor that they can't get electricity or running water to their communities because it would cost too much for a company to come in and update these necessities.