re: #54 A Mom Anon

Exactly! If they’re going to fuck with poor communities then let’s get to those places and take care of business. It can’t be that costly from an ROI standpoint. Reservation communities are usually remote by design, but the effort to help there would be remembered and appreciated.

I don’t know what the obstacles are, but many years ago in rural areas, people had PO boxes in town because there was no local delivery. And there were no rural addresses, people used landmarks to find you. Later, In white areas, they went to RFD addresses, which still did not give a number address, and fire numbers which had no meaning other than to the fire department. Recently, rural roads in white areas have become numbered as though it were cities, my county used fractional numbering (8 3/4 Street, 21 1/2 avenue). As this system rolled out, primarily driven by 911 service, the fire number changed to a street address relating to the numeric street grid. It would not surprise me at all if most reservations have none of these conventions. How to you legally register a street address when there is no street name and no house number? If you just ran around putting up signs and numbers, the white folk would insist on proper surveying and recording.