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FEMA trailers headed to reservations

Washington (AP) American Indian tribes are getting two-thousand unused FEMA trailers.

The trailers are among those that were intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina but have been sitting empty in ArKansas and Texas. Officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency say regulations against placing the homes in flood plains prevented their use on the Gulf Coast.

South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson pushed legislation allowing some of them to go to the tribes. He says he saw pictures of tens of thousands of empty mobile homes sitting unused while South Dakota's Indians were struggling through a tough winter with inadequate housing.

Indian housing has been a problem for decades. According to a 2003 survey, about 90-thousand American Indian families are homeless or "under-housed."


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Posted by prairie fire on Jun 24 2007 8:13AM - who wants tin cans???? IF we have smart ppl on the rezz's they should PROTEST this.... send them to luoisiana!!where theyre needed...alll the GOVT. is doing is making the prairies all UGLY with this usless tin can!!!! Theyve sat in all types of weather..the ride alone will pop out the screws holding them!!!! SAY NO TO TRAILERS !!!

Posted by native in the country on Jul 12 2007 7:39PM - to prairie fire, you said it who wants tin cans , we want houses ! the govmt can give thier tin cans to all the pale faces beings they what to complian about the tin cans that belong in the dump ground. let the white trailer trash have them! on doubt youve seen the white trash run as fast as they can when something is for free and make fools of themselves . my mama taught me that it is rude and inpolite to stare but when i seen this for the 1st time i couldnt help but stare and now the pale faces are doing it again making fools out of themselves over these fema trailers by aruging with the native americans over the internet over what thier govmt offered us (fema tin cans). the pale faces cities look like dump grounds and even have rats, all kinds , funny some have pale faces too! we natives will stick to the prairies !!!!! and country life!!!!!

Posted by naturalmother on Jul 19 2007 12:16AM - On top of them being tin cans, they have been pronounced toxic. It is absolutely horrible for the government to try to house anyone in these shelters. There are cases popping up left and right about how these FEMA trailors were made with toxic chemicals which have caused breathing problems, skin problems, eye irritation, and other serious health issues among the families that have used them in the south. They were cheaply made, cutting corners when ever possible, and are expensive to transport. The money used in gas to ship them up here could be put to much better use. I am so outraged by this. I am a white woman with compassion and respect the natives. This is unfair, inhumane, and a nasty way for the government to cover up another one of their screw ups and they're taking it out on the people who this land belongs to. This decision needs to be fought. Keep those cancer boxes out of here.

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