Economic Marginalization

Indigenous Peoples are among the most marginalized populations in the United States. Consider the following:

1) Twenty five percent of all U.S. Indigenous Peoples are estimated to live below the national poverty line. Some Indigenous communities face poverty rates eighty percent or higher (more information).

2) Indigenous Peoples annual income rates are only half average U.S. income rates (more information).

3) Unemployment rates among Indigenous Peoples soar between twenty to eighty percent (more information).

4) Indigenous children have the lowest level of educational attainment and the highest level of dropout. Only fifty percent of Indigenous students finish highschool (more information).

5) The national life expectancy rate for Indigenous Peoples is at least five years less than all other races (more information).

6) The fatality rate for vehicle related deaths on roads in Indian Country is four hundred percent higher than the national average (more information).

7) The Indigenous infant mortality rate is one hundred and twenty percent higher than the national rate (more information).

8) Nearly twenty percent of housing in Indigenous communities lacks complete plumbing and telephone service (more information).