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And their new ideas sometimes agree, but often disagree,
with the old concepts.
Unlike those of the white population who would wriie
off the Indians as unfortunate, but economically impor
tant savages, people like Dave Allen are working.
Allen, a VISTA volunteer who has established a
community center for Gordon Indians, is working in
"grassroots planning," With Sioux accounting for 80 per
cent of Sheridan County's poor and over 90 per cent
of the Gordon police department's arrests, he has plenty
to work on.
Having instituted an Alcobolics Anonymous program
in the town. Allen is trying to help overcome a lot
of other problems of the Nebraska Indian.
"THK YOUNGISH INDIAN kids scare the hell out
of me," he said. "They are already defeated, they don't
rebel. They regress."
"White society has defined the Indian role, and this
causes major emolionnl problems."
General acceptance h the border town community
is another problem, "The only reason the Indian is
accepted in Rushville is for his moiuy , . , the Indians
were run out of town by condemnation action on their
houses.
"They eliminated the problem by wiping them out,
sending them back to the reservation."
Small town police forces provide o'her troubles, ne
said.
"There is police brutality against the Indians here."
Allen stated. "The police enter property without war
rants. I would say Indian civil rights here are being
violated. And there are lots of claims in the Indian
community of police brutality."
BIT BIOYOND TilJ IMtOBLUMS of alcoholism,
youth attitude, community acceptance and police,
another area was cited by Allen a complication whicti
should be helping the Indians.
Allen said that historically "white Christians had
descended upon them, and Christianity means nothing
to them."
"Their Native American Church docs exist un
derground," he said.
Why does it remain?
"(Christian) missionaries did not approve of smoking
and drinking, yet look at the perversions committed
in the name of religion," he said.
AS TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, Allen feels the
Indian Is subject to a different form of prejudice. Unlike
the relationship of white and black America, "the whites
and the Indians believe their role is determined,
"No one would march or protest. That method is
foreign to settling problems here."
Though Allen may disagree with many other whites
in western Nebraska on the state of the Indian, ha
agrees with most of them when he talks about a way
out of the rural ghetto.
"I think the Indians are the most qualified to solve
their own problems." he said, suggesting cooperatives
and "red" capitalism.
"Around here there are whites who are interested
in Indian lore, but have never seen an Indian."
Few towns, of course, have programs as organized
as those in Gordon, But the western Nebraska areas
can claim no exclusiveness in failing to adapt to Indians
and trying to force them to adapt to the towns.
As Pine Ridge Reservation director, Lay has watched
many Indian families move to metropolitan areas,
become disillusioned or weary of the social pressures
In the cities and return to the reservation,
Enos Poor Bear, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe,
is one who came back and he's glad he did. Having
lived several years off the Pine Ridge Reservaton, In
cluding seven year In Chicago, he returned in i960.
"1 prefer living here." he said. "The city is no
place to raise children."
Actually, the reservation isn't much better, unless
the head of the family has employment or education
(or both.)
"I've been in the outside world." he added, "and
like everywhere it has Its tips and downs."
WHATEVER THK KLKCTKD tribal lender has
gained or lost during his life, he claims he has never
lost, the pride that Is often associated with the history
book Indian.
"They didn't take my pride away," he said. "There
aren't enough white people on this continent, or In the
world to take my pride away,"
Another Indian who tried it off the reservation is
Sterling Snake, treasurer of the Winnebago Tribal Coun
cil on the Wtnntbago-Omaha Reservation in northeast
Nebraska.
According to Sterling Snake, the BIA had located
Indians In obs off the reservation, and shipped them
off even If they weren't Interested In leaving.
"I AND MY WIFE were moved off the reservation."
ha said. "It Is good. IT you want to leave. But I didn't
want to move off. '
"We had Tollsh neighbors; I worked 12 to 14 hours
a day; nobody wanted to even talk with my wife."
ht explained. "So she moved back to the reservation
and I followed."
The long hours are not unusual for the Indian seeking
a Job. According to Blrgll Kills Straight, public Informa
tion officer for the OKO at Pine Ridge. 18 per day
from sun-up to sun-down Is average for migratory
laborers.
"There are no Jobs available on the reservations
KUlf Straight said.
AND WHK1V THE INDIANS go ofl the reservation,
things aren't necessarily any brtter.
"A typical Indian in the cities doesn't have a
chance," Kills Straight said. "He's treated like in the
1920 s when the Negroes were all treated like Amos
and Andy,"
"He cleans the streets and gets a pat m the back,"
he said. "Very few Indians make it."
Kills Straight claimed that there is outright
discrimination in urban areas. And he singled out
Rushville, Gordon, Alliance' and Scottsbluff as being
among the worse.
Everyone says there is discrimination. Most agree
the Indian has been broken and made subservient to
the government. Many blame the paternalism of the
whites for making an unbelievable situation intolerable.
The problems appear endless loss of resrvation
laud to whites, lack of funds to take advantage of
economic resources on the reservation, lack of economic
resources, lack of education, lack of pride, lack of un
derstanding, and infinitum.
What is the answer?
"The solution," says Supt. Lay, ''is going to have
to come from the Indians, and not be injected by what
I do. They will have to find a way to retain pride
and still live in a society in which they have to be
self-sufficient."
"V" 's non-Indians must not demand they give
up anything that is Indian," he said. Whites should
he.j salvage tuat of the Indian culture which is mean
ingful, he added.
While the Indian needs to "pull himself up by the
bootstraps," as some out West will say. others conclude
that the white Americans at least owe him a pair of
boots to hold on to.
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