Compared with seventy-five percent of total population. Nine percent of American Indians have bachelors degreees compared to twenty percent of total population. Thirty-one percent live below poverty line and the national poverty rate is thirteen percent. I grew up two miles from the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. When people think of reservations now they don't think of it being a place where Native Americans were driven to live.
Nobody thinks about how cultures have changed and how they once thrived.
Slot machines, blackjack, bingo, buffets, and alcohol are the main attractions now. The two biggest business' on the Turtle Mountain Reservation are Uniband and Turtle Mountain Manufacturing Corporation. TMMC is a governmental corporation which manufactures military equipment such as water buffalo. Water buffalo are those water tanks which you might have seen during the gulf war. Uniband is a data entry business.