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by Nathaniel Mitchell<\/p>\n
The sound of rivers flushing with fresh water fills yours ears, along with the sound of birds flying\u00a0 all around. As you walk throughout this enchanted forest you see all forms of life all around you\u00a0 including some deer as well. As you journey throughout this forest you stumble upon a small\u00a0 tribal reservation out in the woods you learn about these natives and they tell you about how\u00a0 the they been living in these land for centuries. They tell you stories about what has happened\u00a0 out in the woods near them and the experiences they\u2019ve loved having there. As they talk more\u00a0 and more about how special their place is, night approaches they show you how alive the place\u00a0 is even at night, everybody within the area is dancing, laughing, and talking. Eventually the\u00a0 night does end though. When you wake up you realize you can hear sounds out further away\u00a0 from the reservation, but still loud enough to hear it. As you venture out deeper into the woods\u00a0 to investigate you see a timber worker cutting down trees just a little over a mile away, you ask\u00a0 why only to find out they are expanding the land for more housing development. He says they\u00a0 won\u2019t be there for long and there not taking that much land up. Not thinking much of it you\u00a0 return home, but as a couple of months pass by working hard you finally get the time to go\u00a0 hangout with your friends that you met on the reservation. However, as you return all you find\u00a0 is the remnants of tree stumps and no life, no rushing streams, no deer, no native\u00a0 encampments. The only thing left is a CAT machine, tearing everything apart to put in more\u00a0 housing developments, even though you thought it was sacred ground and you thought they\u00a0 wouldn\u2019t do that but now you\u2019re looking at flat open area with nothing but dirt and wind\u00a0 blowing around. What I just talked about is everything that has happened in the past and\u00a0 present to lots of reservations around America they force these people off their lands and even\u00a0 when they do give them a designated sacred place that the government won\u2019t touch they go\u00a0 around destroying everything near it. When the government realizes what being done to them\u00a0 they just give them a couple benefits for live cheaper schooling and insurance but that\u2019s it. No\u00a0 more sacred lands to hunt on or have fun on all for developmental land.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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