JC> SB> Grin!  It's amazing how quick folks are to defend their own belief
  > SB> systems, and, at the same time, they often do not give the same
  > SB> respect to the beliefs of others they wish those others to give to
  > SB> theirs.
JC> That lack of respect seems to be more prevelant with "Christianity"-based
  > religions.
There is some truth to that.
JC> SB> We have similar services here, also; but it is never enough.
JC> What or how much _is_ enough?
JC> At what point does the "more money doesn't solve the problem" get 
ached.
I ask that question too.  It is clear that some problems are never going
to be solved by more money.  Child and spouse abuse cuts across all
social and economic lines.  When the Weekly Reader did its survey of
drug usage among school kids a few years ago, they discovered that
those who were poverty stricken and those who were the children of the
extremely wealthy, were equally apt to be drug abusers.
JC> And at some point in time you were no longer dependent on "others'. And 
n
  > your case you went elsewhere to find what was not available in your
  > community. The point I was trying to make was that some people leave a
  > community that has many of those things available to go to another 
communit
  > whose services are already overburdened. For example there is NO Native
  > America College or University in Oregon.
I've seen that, too.  There are NO native colleges around here either.
It would make more sense for folks with native colleges near-by to go
there if they don't have the means of paying to go elsewhere.
And there are a lot of stats out that show that natives who go to their
local rez college, at least for the first two years, actually do better
academically, are more apt to graduate from college, and are more apt to
go on to graduate school; than those who go to "white" colleges.
The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers) used to pay for Native kids from the rezes to attend George
School in Pennsylvania (a highly elite private high school).  The flunk
out rate among the Indians was over 50%.  They asked me to come in and
talk with them about why native kids were flunking out.  I pointed out
the kids were, in some cases, 2000 miles from home; they were in a
foreign culture; and no efforts were being made to connect them to the
Indian community here. I suggested they spend the money either on local
Indian kids, who would already be close to home: or on rez schools.
They agreed.  And they now no longer pay to take kids off the rez and
bring them to school here.  I'm sure there are people who were dismayed
by my advice.  But, heck, if nothing else, they were wasting their
money.
                             Sondra
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