It’s pretty hard to help others if you don’t know there is a problem or what the historical background to that problem looks like.  It’s very hard to know what to do if you don’t first find out what current conditions look like, what kind of proposed solutions have already been tried, or what kind of efforts are currently underway to bring about change. 

The betterment of living conditions for Native Americans has never been a simple matter. There are umpteen layers of governmental bureaucracy to navigate for even the simplest policy changes to be implemented. 

Besides an unwieldy oversight structure, social reformers must also deal with the general population’s ignorance and indifference toward Native Americans, if not to say outright bigotry and kill-the-Indian syndrome.