JC> SB> I know the Lakota are the poorest group of people in America.  I do
  > SB> not know what, exactly, has caused this.
JC> A number of things. They have been offered a financial solution that they
  > have refused, however.
I think they see that financial solution (payment for the Black Hills)
as being one more demand for a sacrifice of culture.  But you know that
already.
JC> 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.
It's been done.  Getting homeless people off the streets who didn't
really want to get off.  They end up back on the streets.
                       Sondra
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