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 * The Indians today live mostly like other people in the United States. Their main issue is the fight for the rights to the reserves. Large part of the United States natural resources are in the reserves. The Native Americans have after a long fight against the United States received 87 million dollars as compensation for areas that has been taken from them in 1887. **
 * Today many Americans understand what the Native Americans have been through and they can live like normal Americans without being treated differently. **
 * Despite the same treatment in the USA society and there are places which are more or less similar to slum areas. There are Indians who live in poor communities and reserves. Those who wanted to stick to their culture and their traditions were usually held in the designated sanctuaries, with or against their will. Many of these live as some of the poorest people in the United States and have one of the worst living conditions in one of world’s powerful countries. **
 * Today there are around 0,9 % Indigenous people in United States and around 0,6 % who consider them self as part Indigenous.

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