Most recently, police have decided to dust off their grandpappy's Union uniforms and get back into Native suppression, firing rubber bullets, tear gas , water cannons , and concussion grenades at protesters in North Dakota. However, the atrocities of the Standing Rock pipeline protests are but a few drops in the giant, Olympic-sized pool that is the U.S. government's continual fucking over of the rights of American tribes.

Clearly, the biggest mistake Native Americans and Alaskans ever made was saving white people's asses from dying of starvation in the middle of their cornfields. As a continued thanks for their offer of integration, indigenous people now have difficulty voting , are virtually invisible in pop culture, and of all the NFL teams associated with their culture, the most racist one is the most popular.

5 Native Americans Have Almost No Access To Health Care

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All American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are supposed to get health care provided by the federal government, because that's sort of the least you can do after driving them to the brink of extinction. It's been ratified in a lot of treaties (fool them once), which is why they're exempt from the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, because they're supposed to have the option of getting some of that sweet, sweet health care through the Indian Health Service. Which would be a great boon if the IHS was any good.

Indian Health Service

For one thing, they let unqualified children run medical tests.

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The big problem is that the IHS is incredibly underfunded. The agency basically gets a check each year, and only has that amount of money to spend on health care. Since it often runs out of money about six months into the year, you should really try to plan on getting sick exclusively in the springtime. In 2013, IHS spent an average of $2,849 on each patient -- a fraction of the national average of $7,717 per patient. Estimates place the IHS budget at around 45 percent adequate, which is a disappointing score for a Judd Apatow movie, let alone a health care program.

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You shouldn't get to tell two million people, "Eh, have you tried walking it off?"

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This chronic underfunding becomes even more terrifying when you consider that Indian reservations can be massive. It's not uncommon for an ambulance to take hours to arrive at a medical emergency -- or in most cases, about 45 minutes after the medical emergency has become fatally less urgent. And those who do take the time to spend a hundred bucks on gas money to drive out to one of the dwindling facilities in the reservations are met with a lack of advanced equipment, and often turned away by the IHS because they only have resources for desperate circumstances, which means "people who will have an uneven amount of limbs tomorrow." Otherwise? Most of the time, you'll get sent home with an ice pack, an aspirin, and the knowledge that the United States has wiped its ass with yet another treaty.