How were settlement societies different from hunter-gatherer societies? Hunter-gatherer societies relied on outside trade for food supplies. Settlement societies did not have contact with other human groups. Hunter-gatherer societies were able to use leisure time to develop art. Settlement societies specialized in tasks other than hunting and farming.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.