Like I said- it’s their land, run by their tribe. Now sure, 5-10 generations ago, they got a raw deal.
But for the last few generations, they can’t blame us anymore.
There are all-white localities in the Ozarks, or in Arkansas, etc which are dead poor, too.
Because that’s just how they lived before Columbus except they didn’t even get to be drunk then? 
But they didn’t know they were living in poverty; in fact the poor deluded natives thought they had it pretty good way back then. They moved about freely and were never unemployed as each person contributed what they could and used what they needed. Alcohol merely numbed their senses and helped to make them unaware of the predations of the newcomers in their midst.
I’m now officially bored with this thread.
Another aspect which hasn’t been touched upon yet is the issue of forced adoptions of Native American children. Forced adoptions took place in various ways and at various times but the idea was to take the children out of their cultural setting and place them with white families. Sometimes this was done for religious purposes. Sometimes as punishment for recalcitrant tribes. Sometimes it was done hoping that the children would go back and encourage their tribes to modernize themselves. But the effect - planned or otherwise - was to weaken Native cultural ties and knowledge.
Here’s an article from 2009, in the Denver Post. It discusses an experiment in forced adoptions which took place from 1958-1957.
In this incident, 395 children were taken from their families and adopted, ostensibly to help save them from poverty. The article also talks with others who were forcibly adopted in differing circumstances.
This isn’t a question of ancient history. These acts were done in our own life times and the people to whom they were done are very much still suffering.
I’m not convinced that perpetuating the reservation system is a good long term solution for the Native American tribes. But I honestly can’t blame the Native Americans for not trusting the rest of us to find a solution for them.
Moved about freely? Unless they trespassed upon another tribes land, in which case they might be tortured to death. Or unless they were a slve. Or a woman.
Do you have any cites that most Amerinds were communistic? Now sure, in many tribes, they will help each other out to a degree, but hardly to "each person contributed what they could and used what they needed’. In fact the evidence of Buffalo jumps and Potlachs shows that the native American could be wasteful at times.
Amerinds were human, just like you and I. They were greedy and generous, lazy *and *hardworking, cruel and merciful, and so forth.
In fact before Columbus, many natives were organized into fairly large “empires” with a centralized government, agriculture, slavery, organized religion, taxes and all that stuff.
About the only difference is that they didn’t have much metal working, not much in the way of domesticated draft animals, and didn’t use the wheel.
Not just that. My former mother in law was sent to an Indian Boarding School to learn the “white ways.” This was in the 1950s. They made her cut off her braids too… That kind of thing, on a large scale, also plays havoc with strong families, cultural ties, etc.
Unfortunately, Natives are still to this day suffering many injustices. Land Disputes are common, negotiations with these tribes have fallen flat in court, and countries are still violating sacred land.
In the early 90’s, there was A WAR at Oka, sacred land that the Canadian government wanted to use for a Golf Course. The US government was involved. There was bloodshed.
Luckily, when the “officials” stated that natives shot first, a matriarch explained…“we did not shoot at them, they shot at us, the trees don’t lie.” The gunfire from the Canadian/US officers all ricocheted off the base of the trees directly behind where the natives were hiding; whereas native shots hit the peaks of the trees. We were shooting to defend, Government was shooting to KILL!
Believe me…injustice against Native(Indians are the people with the dots) is still alive and well. As is prejudice.