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echo: indian_affairs
to: SONDRA BALL
from: JIM CASTO
date: 1997-07-06 13:37:00
subject: Re: Stiya

 -=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> I know the Lakota are the poorest group of people in America.  I do
 SB> not know what, exactly, has caused this.
 A number of things. They have been offered a financial solution that they
 have refused, however.
 SB> I don't even know for sure
 SB> why I survived the migrant worker world, and went to college, and
 SB> became a writer; while other talented people died of overdoses; or gave
 SB> up, and still work the fields today.
 
 It's all in the individual's mind. Kinda sorta like giving up a habit.
 (Like smoking.) The individual at some point in time _has_ to want to.
 There is nothing I (or the most benificent culture/society in the world)
 can do to get a homeless person off the street unless the homeless person
 _wants_ to get off the street.
 
 Jim
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