homes and apartments but what if we did what might we see for commuters driving along historic hiawatha avenue in minneapolis minnesota one of the golden cities of the american midwest they will see tents hundreds of tents which are home to roughly two to three hundred homeless citizens about majority of which are native american called the wall of forgotten natives this encampment represents yet another embarrassing. for the united states in the country's treatment of its indigenous peoples according to statistics back from back in april of this year and up and county where the wall of forgotten natives is located native americans make up one point one percent of hennepin county residents but sixteen percent of unsheltered homeless people as john for bit the st stephen's human services told the minneapolis city council the emergency is not the camp the emergency has been going on for years the emergency is now visible. from the diseases and wars brought by early colonizers from europe to the broken treaties and outright genocide seen during the united states its expansion west word from sea t