It's embarrassing: you mentioned Native Americans without mentioning their current conditionsThe need for awareness“We are not part of the conversation, rural America is not part of the conversation, especially not the Indians because a lot of the time they don't even know about the destructive things out there,” declares a Native resident of the Pine Ridge Reservation in Jacek Kropinski's short documentary, The Oglala Sioux of Pine Ridge Reserve (Kropinski, 2015). Kropinski's documentary details the living conditions of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the third world, which will strike most of its viewers. Jamie Turninghory, a thirteen-year-old resident who lives on the reservation, lets people know that they watch that “my dreams are to have a better life and not be in the Res” (Kropinski, 2015) While the video shows exactly what America associates with the extreme poverty experienced in less developed countries through alarming statistics that create urgency. to answer, let's see exactly why Jamie Turninghory harbors the dream of escaping the reservation. The Pine Ridge Reservation currently experiences 90% unemployment. rate, along with an 85% alcoholism rate that mirrors the unemployment rate. About 92% of its residents live below the poverty line, which leads to a number of social problems. The effect of this level of poverty opens the way to gangs, drugs and school dropouts. The dropout rate exceeds 70%, as eighth grade graduates must travel up to 20-30 miles to reach a high school. The teacher turnover rate is 800% of the U.S. national average because the reservation cannot recruit teachers due to a lack of housing. The reservation estimates that they need approximately 1...... half of paper ......uncivilized and potentially violent people in hopes of promoting the idea that forced separations of native peoples from their lands and murderous practices which persecuted were inevitable as part of the hegemonic system (Carleton, 2011, p.111). Currently, social studies standards often take on a tone of detachment, focusing on political actions and court rulings rather than examining how these actions subsequently affected the lives of Native Americans (Shear, 2015, p.88) . This serves to disillusion students about Native American affairs, keeping Native Americans stuck in history and the hindsight of the American people. By delving into their structures, I will illustrate how these colonial discourses negatively impacted Native Americans in their struggle for civil liberties and continue to negatively impact them today in their struggle for consciousness..