What is the average day like for a native american on a reservation?
People are always working, they don’t show up on the national employment rolls because they don’t pay the same taxes. But, we pay a fee (tax) for our water supply, garbage pick-up, postal service and the like. We pay for things like mortgages, rent, car payment, heat, electricity, gas, oil, telephone, cable, satellite, Internet, contractors and repairmen, like everyone else. Like any rural community, many people have permanent full-time jobs. Some people have part-time jobs, contract work and seasonal jobs. People that don’t have permanent jobs have to be entrepreneurial. They are constantly networking, bidding on jobs or engaged in traditional lines of work, fishing, farming, maple syrup production, crafts, harvesting etc. People are not on welfare, sitting on the couch watching soap operas and eating bon bons like some believe. It can be difficult depending on jobs available and the skills you develop. It’s a boom or bust situation. If you can’t bring in the money you go without. I u
