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Broken_Hero

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10. The two things that jump to mind
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 09:50 PM
Nov 2012

are

1. Health care, stream line it in a way in which any hospital, clinic will accept American Indians, basically making all health care providers defacto IHS clinics/hospitals.

2. Education/Higher Education, like with Hospitals, let any Indian, go to any College/Private school/whatever instead of funneling Indian kids to Indian colleges/boarding schools.

Those two issues are the most important to me, with IHS I hate the fact that IHS in a way traps people into staying in certain area's, because in some cases if you move out of your area the tribe doesn't consider you "indian". With higher education they have a handful of Indian only colleges but I think giving the chance/opportunity to go to any college/votech will offer more hope/chances for our people to be successful.

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