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Poverty, alcoholism, abuse and suicide plague Indian reservations, where the federal government has made economic growth nearly impossible.

Indian reservations contain massive amounts of coal, oil and uranium, but the federal government won’t let Native Americans use most of it.

Native Americans have the country’s lowest labor participation rate. One big reason: the government denies them their property rights.

Despite spending $20k per student each year, the government-run schools for Native Americans are abysmal. 

American Indian poverty rates are nearly double the U.S. average—in large part because of an economically stifling federal bureaucracy.  

How can the government best improve the lives of American Indians? It can let them do what they want with their own land.