Breh, I most certainly can't speak to your particular situation, nor any specific situation, and I apologize if that last post made it sound like I thought I had some insight that you didn't or anything like that. The point I was being too lazy to make is just that the rez culture--again, this isnt coming from an experience perxpective, but from a social/economic theory perspective--is due in a large part to the little niche that europeans have forced natives into. You sequester a group into a partucilar extra shitty environment and then offer little benefits to individuals without helping the group itself and you are going to serious fuck up that culture.
So your opinion and mine arent in conflict. There can be plenty of fucked up people on the rez, but that doesnt mean that the culture of the rez isnt at least in part due to the shit that mainstream american culture has done/still does to natives.
You feel me?