I have two friends: one a PI who worked a lot of cases on a nearby reservation and another who is 1/4 Native American (Blackfoot, I think) who left his relatives on the reservation to seek a real life. Here are their perspectives on the current life of the Native American:

Want to know how they make a living? Many just wait until the road-building contracts come out. They sign up to work on the crews. They have to be taken, but are the laziest people on the crew. After one job, they go back to the reservation to drown themselves in the bottle until next year. Most of them are on reservations that get a huge payout every year from the Federal Government, so each gets an allotment of that payout and that's what they live on. Those reservations with casinos also make a killing off them, similarly distributing their non-taxed earnings to their tribe members. My friend was absolutely disgusted with that lifestyle so he left, went to college, got a degree, got married, has kids, and is leading a productive life. Booze is absolute anathema to him. Yet he gets petitioned by his family to send them money all the time.

The Reservation-bound Native American is truly one of the most pitiable of souls.

Oh oh looks like Elizabeth Warren is going to have to attend classes.

why concentrate comments on the natives, but rather the absolute and I mean ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY shown by people employed by 0 in his administration of the country. treating the natives in this manner further isolates them from the rest of the population of the country. I thought 0 was an idiot now I know longer just think it as he continues to prove to me that he IS an idiot. like a drunk sailor spending money except the sailor is spending his own, not the politicians they spend ours. I would say give the Indians an education so they can join the rest of the country but what school would you send them to that has that ability, NONE. the country is living a bad joke.

If we get any more climate change here in the North, we will no longer have a growing season.
Perhaps California weighs too much when factoring in mathematical models.

We all will be living in tents and become hunter-gatherers.
The Feast of Tabernacles (tents) is at the end of the cycle of this age.

Let's stipulate that some Native Americans would love to go back to living with nature. Don't those BLM desk jockeys think they know how to do that? Weren't they doing it when our ancestors arrived? Who do they think they are, trying to teach those people what they already know?

The most inane part of this whole thing is that the tribal people arrived in North America 15,000 years ago, at the end of a glacial period. From that perspective there has been global warming for the tribes for 15,000 years. As they are all still around I'd say they have a pretty good handle on how to survive without the help of BLM.

You would fall over at the amount of money thrown at this tribe. Last year they did one of their victim payments. All tribal members got $10,000. They get a hydroelectric dam. They get $$$$$$.

The Apaches, Cherokee, Waxhaws, etc., must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Teaching Native Americans to deal with climate change? I would just tell them to turn the air conditioning up a notch, that should solve the problem.

“I said you are a native dammit! Now act like one!”

Setting aside the article's snide tone, I don't understand why we have to spend any money to mitigate climate change. This is change that is happening slowly over generations. There's more weather variation than the 1C of ave climate change. The 1C will turn into 2C and then maybe more, adn that average will be very costly, but we don't need monies spent on general mitigation. We need to be building wealth for when the costs appear and finding geoengineering technologies to control the climate. This program is rationalizing spending money using the name of something that's a real long-term threat.

Headshake, shake, laugh, sides hurt.

paid in advance train wreck

What do they want these people living in tents and hunting for their own food? Wait...Never mind.