Introduction Although the United States has come a long way from boarding schools that existed to further forced assimilation, its effects still are felt by Native Americans palpably citation. As illustrated by the multiple discriminatory laws the U.S. government enacted against Native Americans, the class-action lawsuit by Elouise Cobell against the United States Department of Interior for the mismanagement of the Indian Trust Funds in 1996 (Janko, 2013), and the copious amounts of present-day socioeconomic hurdles Native Americans face as a result of trying to access adequate healthcare, proper education, and other means of living, the U.S. government has egregiously placed Native American communities at a systemic disadvantage citation.…show more content… The case of Cobell v. Salazar, as told by Emerson College graduate, Melinda Janko: producer, director, and writer of A Small Measure of Justice in her special feature article in 2013 for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Magazine, Elouise Cobell: A Small Measure of Justice, involved Cobell, along with the Native American Rights Fund and attorney Dennis Gingold, filing a classaction lawsuit against the United States Department of Interior for the mismanagement of the Indian Trust Funds belonging to over 300,000 individual tribal members in 1996 (Jank This supposed governmental mismanagement was not the first time something of this magnitude had happened however, as illustrated by the Starvation…show more content… government to alleviate socioeconomic disadvantages caused by past legislation: education and employment efforts. The evaluations of these two solutions and their implications and limitations lead to the natural conclusion that education is the best solution to elevate Native American SES. Upon research, multiple solutions to the Native American SES problem arose, such as higher education enrollment and reservation re-structuring. But after elaboration, these solutions would sum up educational efforts being the driving force. This is not unusual, as education is a foundational aspect of socioeconomic status - as told by the American Psychology Association (American Psychological Association, 2017) - and plays a major part in determining future SES citation. The main limitations of this solution are the finances, cultural sensitivity, and geographical obstacles. Implementing good-quality education for Native American children would be expensive and difficult in the short term, but would repay itself tenfold in the long run. In summary, Native Americans have been
