-=> 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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