Huey and the Lakota Indians

By the looks of it Aaron Huey finds the treatment of the Lakota Indians to be an injustice. He describes how the Lakota moved off their land to prisoner of war camps, which would be the reservation.  As we all know Genocide is a social Injustice and that is exactly what we did to the Indians. It may not seem like it but we did in fact commit a Genocide. We pushed them out of their land, we murdered them, we brought disease and we took a lot of their food and crops. The Native Americans did not have social justice at all. In this case social Justice for them would be obtaining the land that was theirs, and being re-payed for what we have destroyed. Many of the Lakota Indians on the Reservation are living below the poverty line. There houses are cluttered and dirty, children have to bath in the sinks, and the living conditions are beyond unsafe. Many of the children don’t even get to live their lives, the infant mortality rate is very high. Another sad thing is that a lot of the Lakota Indians are unemployed and unable to find jobs. Huey shows all of this turmoil through pictures that he took of the Reservation. He also describes all of the uprisings, treaties and Acts that were set between the Americans and the Indians. By the looks of it, during the 1800’s there was a lot of wars between the Indians and Americans and there were a lot of treaties and Acts made that were not always kept. America delt the Indians a lot of broken promises. There were many times where the US invaded the Native Americans land because they had something like Gold that we wanted. And a lot of the times America never apologized or took responsibility for the situation.