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education, combat methamphetamine dealers, promote economic development and improve housing on reservations.
• "This election is about Indian Country," Obama declared six years ago.
• Some residents of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation said many of Obama's promises have yet to be met. Around Cannon Ball, a handful of houses sit with boarded-up windows, stray dogs roam and a group of young men hang out on a back porch in the early afternoon. The aroma of alcohol hangs in the air.
• "Around here, they need to do something, especially for the homeless," said Alma Thunder Hawk, who said her government-provided trailer home is uninhabitable, infested with mice and lacking running water. "I'm elderly. I've been trying to get help. Nobody will help me."
• Still, some on the reservation said they feel Obama has done better than his predecessors. Ron His Horse is Thunder, the tribe's former chairman, said he believes Obama has helped American Indians more than any president since Richard Nixon, assisting in settling lawsuits and prosecuting criminal offenders.
• Obama plans to note advances for Native Americans made under his administration, including litigation resolved, protecting Native American women from domestic violence, improved access to federal disaster assistance and tax breaks for tribal benefits.
• Curtis Brave Bull, a Cannon Ball resident, said he's seen people working ahead of Obama's visit to spruce up the town, which has seen hard times for many years.
• "This is like a ghetto on the prairie, but we now we have to clean things up," Brave Bull said. "So maybe something good will come out of it."
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