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Desperate, nearly third world conditions inside the United States are often overlooked.   Native Americans are plagued with poverty, hunger and despair. Their cries of despair frequently fall on deaf ears. THBBF understands the desperate conditions that many Native Americans are forced to live in, and is dedicated to improving them. One of the many programs we plan on executing and first on our agenda is the creation of mobile medical clinics, that can reach people in the outer communities who cannot get to doctors or hospitals.  Please help us help them by donating to our foundation today. Wopila. Thank you.

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     MORTALITY:

    * Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.

    * Lakota death rate is the highest in the United States.

    * The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average.

    * One out of every four Lakota children born are fostered or adopted out to non-Indian homes.

    * Diseases such as tuberculosis, polio, etc. are present. Cancer is now at epidemic proportions!

    * Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S national average for this group.

    DISEASE:

    * The Tuberculosis rate on Lakota reservations is approx. 800% higher than the U.S national average.

    * Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S national average.

    * The rate of diabetes is 800% higher than the U.S national average.

    * Federal Commodity Food Program provides high sugar foods that kill Native people through diabetes and heart disease.

POVERTY:

    * Median income is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.

    * 97% of our Lakota people live below the poverty line.

    * Many families cannot afford heating oil, wood or propane and many residents use ovens to heat their homes.

UNEMPLOYMENT:

    * Unemployment rates on our reservations are 80% or higher.   

HOUSING:

    * Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).

    * 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage while 40% lack electricity.

    * 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.

    * 60% of housing is infected with potentially fatal black molds.

    * There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (may only have two to three rooms). Some homes,   built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL:

    * More than half the Reservation’s adults battle addiction and disease.

    * Alcoholism affects 9 in 10 families.

    * Two known meth-amphetamine labs allowed to continue operation. Why?

INCARCERATION:  

* Indian children incarceration rate 40% higher than whites.

1. *In South Dakota, 21 percent of state prisoners are American Indians, yet they only make up 2% of the population.
   

2. *Indians have the second largest state prison incarceration rate in the nation.
   

   THREATENED CULTURE:

    * Only 14% of the Lakota population can speak the Lakota language.

    * The language is not being shared inter-generationally. Today, the average age of a fluent Lakota speaker is 65 years.

    * Our Lakota language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction.

    * Our Lakota language is not allowed to be taught in the U.S. Government schools.