Reservations

So I am in Bend, Oregon right now and on the way down I drove through the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. To give you an idea of where this is it is southeast of Portland and north of Bend. It is also near Mt. Hood, Oregon if anyone wanted to go skiing while visiting. I must have blinked or sneezed when I drove through the town because even though the Warm Springs website has a map of it posted, I completely missed it! I did see two houses though (several miles apart)..... and this is on more than 1,000 square miles (according to wikipedia) of reservation.
Apparently there are about 4,000 tribal members (according to the Warm Springs website) living on or around the reservation, so I am still not sure how I missed the town. But any way as I was driving through I was thinking about how beautiful the land was. I realized though that it would be a pretty hard place for any agriculture or livestock because a lot of what I saw was rocky and a lot of it seemed a little steep to drive a tractor up. So in a sense I understand how a lot of tribes when they moved to reservations struggled because they got the bad end of the deal. Because of what they were given they now struggle as a result of choices that were made by white men who most likely thought Native Americans were beneath them.
(I am hoping to write more about this reservation when I pass through it again on my way home)