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There were also white towns that made money selling alcoholic beverages and drugs to native reservations. Usually long periods of starvation cause high rates of diabetes (amongst other symptoms) in a populace - today the lakota people have one of the highest percentage of diabetes per capita in the world.
That is literally what Rapid City is built on.
Meanwhile the average household income at Pine Ridge (not individual income, whole household) is aboud 10-13k per year.