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I spoke with one of my favorite cousins yesterday, and he told me that his step-father (who is on Rosebud Sioux tribal council) took part in a recent discussion about some feedback that the state of South Dakota received from Native Americans about the economy, how bad it was, and how bad it was affecting Native Americans. Crickets... You could hear crickets in the response of Native Americans to this government posed question. The government, on second hand reporting, was not happy with the lack of response from Natives in S.D. because clearly, Natives are impoverished, and clearly, they need financial assistance as a demographic group. Yet, Natives just did not give the interviewers from the government any real response on how hard the economy was on themselves and their families. This leads me back to something I said in January 2009, when commenting on Obama's inauguration: "It is a joke on the Rosebud Rez and across other Native American reservations right no...