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Is there a reason why they don't have a street address in 2019? Do they not want them or is it funding or something else?
by devicetray0 7y ago
Is there a reason why they don't have a street address in 2019? Do they not want them or is it funding or something else?
- plurple 7y agoNative American land laws are a disaster, and it’s not their fault. It’s a large contributor to poverty as well. I’m still not sure if that was an unintended or intended consequence of US govt treaties.
- undreren 7y agoWhy is this comment so downvoted? I'm not american, and I was also curious about why they don't have an adress. As far as I know, only homeless people don't have an adress in Denmark. EDIT: Great, now I'm downvoted as well! Huzzah!
- goodcanadian 7y agoNot native American, but grew up in a rural area (in Canada). My parents only got a "street address" a couple of years ago. There is a land location system going back over a century, but basically no one who didn't live on a farm new how to interpret it (say 98% of the population), and so it was basically useless as an address. The new "street address" is actually based on the land location, but it is formatted like a street address (house number, road name) rather than specifying quarter, section, township, range, meridian. Throughout my childhood, we usually just used a postal address, but in the last couple of decades, bank officials and the like have gotten more and more insistent on a physical address which we were basically unable to provide.
- abandonliberty 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey
- wglb 7y agoWhere I grew up in Montana, we didn't have a street address. Only about 20 years ago did they name the road (after my grandfather) and assign addresses.