Native Americans Native Americans, living in the United States, have always experienced oppression due their cultural identities. Janko speaks of the wrongdoings against the Blackfeet Indians, by United States Government officials. Cobell discussed “Ghost Ridge.the sacred burial site [that] tells the story [of] ‘The Starvation Winter of 1883-1884 took the lives of 500 Blackfeet Indians who had been camping in the vicinity of Old Agency. This tragic event was the result of an inadequate supply of government rations during the exceptionally hard winter’” (Janko). These Indians were forgotten during a time when they needed the most help, resulting in many fatalities. This major example of oppression against Native Americans was the basis of Cobell’s lawsuit, which she filed to receive compensation for the tribe’s
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