An issue regarding people who are given no help what so ever in times of serious crisis because they happen to be Native American and live on a reservation.

Thursday September 8, 2011, 10:16 am

On 30th August 2011 the people of Blackfeet reservation in Montana were told they could not use their water supply for anything, apparently there had been some sort of an attack on the water supply and it was not able to be used until the test results came back. This could have taken anything up to 2 weeks they did not know how long.
As soon as The Red Nation Society (A Social Network site created by Mr C. Tatsey www.therednatinsociety.ning.com ) heard of this, within minutes, the Red Cross in Montana was contacted and the representative (Ms C. Tone - Red Cross, Montana) informed the caller (Mr L Scudder - Washington State):
"The Red Cross does not help Native Americans on a Reservation. This is the responsibility of the government"
A short time later the Red Cross was called again by someone else (Ms D Shoemake - Mississippi) for help and that person was informed by Ms. Tone:
"It is the responsibility of the Water provider to give emergency water to the people."
No water was provided, even though the Montana Fire service promised they would get Fresh water to the people, the local stores increased the price of bottled water so much people could not afford to buy it themselves and had to rely on joining money together with other households to buy enough water to ration out. Mr Tatsey travelled 200 miles round trip to buy water for his people to drink.