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What's it like?
And do they have good weed?

SpiralArchitect

My stepfather was Native American. My mother divorced him, but I was adopted into his tribe, given an Indian name (Brave Eagle) and participated in many pow-wows, peace ceremonies and sweat lodges. Because of this, although being predominately German and Norwegian ancestry, I have a strong connection with Native Americans in this country. The reservation was anything but fun, I was picked on constantly for being white and scrawny. I had glasses, braces, and could read better than most of the kids could string together a sentence. I'm not saying all of them were dumb, but wow - talk about a group of neglected individuals; the kids. They are let to roam, skip school, huff lysol, and get in all kinds of trouble.... it was bad and I usually tagged along although I did nothing.

My first interaction or introduction to marijuana is when my cousins on the rez were smoking some at a powwow. I was pretty young at the time, about 10-12 and I knew they were smoking weed but I didn't know what it did to you. They wouldn't of shared even if I wanted to (I was the only white kid for miles).

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Trocisp

I have been to Indian Reservations, although my experience wasn't nearly the same as SpiralArchitects... Of course, I've never been the scrawny kid. And when kids picked on me, I had a tendency to pick back. But I picked back with weapons (baseball bats, sticks, fists, whatever I could get my hands on) - I wasn't the nicest kid.

The Marijuana wasn't quality, it's normally "Neglected bud" that's been left to grow in the wilds and picked when someone comes across it. It's shwagg, in every sense of the word.

NisgaaMan

I am a native from canada and I dont know how the native people are where you guys are from, but here they graduate from school and the weed is just as good as it is in any city or town, bc canada right here.

AsianStonerMan

i've only seen what they look like on the outside while driving through arizona on a road trip w/ some friends, the map said it was a navajo reservation but wtvr. The land is so shitty, its just rocks and sand and sun baked dirt with a few desolate, dying plants here and there :P ahh the thoughtfulness and kindness of the american government.

Trocisp

Native American Indian Reserves are what we're talking about.

They're areas designated by the Federal Government to be semi-sovereign sub-nations, of sort.

troublemaker_42

I basically grew up on an Indian reservation. The actual boarder was probably 10 miles away or so, but the area I grew up in had a very high population of Native Americans. Indian reservations vary widely though. In Minnesota, due to a successful casino gambling enterprise, the Indian reservations are ritzy, upper-class, "rich" neighborhoods. To contrast that, the Pine Ridge Reservation in SD, is among the most economically depressed areas of the nation. The reservation is basically like a third world country, full of poverty, violence, drugs, and rampant alcoholism. Its as bad as any ghetto I've seen, and the crime rate is crazy. The Rosebud reservation,nearby where I grew up is not much different. Again, its an ecomonically depressed area full of crime and poverty. I have little sympathy though, because of the widespread corruption among the tribal council and the residents of the reservation. They are too busy robbing each other to attempt to dig themselves out of the hole they have created. Hardly a day goes by without corruption on some level being exposed. The tribal councils of these reservations make the Republican Party look like candidates for sainthood by comparison!! Seriously, the corruption in tribal government is the worst I've seen in any organization. Greed rules the day, all day, every day.

The weed, in my experience, is nearly always mexican brick, typically in this area purchased in Denver and hauled here. Some of its better than others, but KB is rare on every reservation I've been around. People are far more concerned about quantity instead of quality. Oftentimes, bags will be picked over as well......I've even seen bags where it was obviously the better, top part of the buds were broken off, leaving a big stem and a tiny portion of the original bud. Prices are as high as the market allows. I've seen plenty of 50 schwag quarters get sold, but I can typically score the same weed for 100 bucks an oz. At that pprice, its decent, but I feel for thos people stuck buying overpriced quarters. Long story short--weed is extremely prevalent, but the quality is low. Don't expect to find anything better than average brickweed.

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Plainsman1963

I've been to an American Indian reservation or two. Around my parts if you are lucky enough to have a casino, like TM said, there's lots of money around.

Not that lucky? Poverty. Mind numbing, never relenting poverty.

Never smoked any from a reservation, so can't help ya there.

dedbr

"This land shall be yours forever, as long as the wind blows and the sun shines....."

From an early American Indian treaty. Of course they meant nothing.....

A reservation is a microcosm of our efforts to pen a group of people up and force them to be whatever at the time we think they should be. First we practiced genocide on them, then we wonder how come they turned out the way they did?

I'm sorry, but my frustration mounts at this issue quickly........TM is right, the Soiux are in desperate straights, but I guess they learned from the best, huh?


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Broliette

I had to chuckle at first seeing this. Growing up here in the northwest the reservations and Native Americans are very much a part of our state and heritage. But then realizing that not everyone has been to one, it is more understandable.

I always feel saddened driving through the rez thinking how this once great and beautiful people have been utterly destroyed by greed and selfishness.

"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" - Thomas More, Utopia

Never gotten any weed there.

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