As hard as it is to believe that any reserve can be successful, I do recall a presentation given by a young native guy years ago at our school about the work he is doing at reserves to promote education, and getting kids to stay in school and finish. According to him he was very successful, and was recruiting to get more graduates to work with him. So it is possible to promote more effort from within.
I think this thread has shown that this issue is extremely complicated. 4x4 is exactly right though. Give them the chance to actually join this century, and MAYBE in a 100 years they will be close to catching up. It is that bad.
My opinion still is that no matter what the solution will be, or whatever law or agreement they come to, it has to be results driven. And the results will be pretty limited. It will probably take 20 years or a complete generational shift just to get more Native kids to graduate from high school. If we start right now.
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