The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 169

a 5 PAGE 23 Urban Indian New European Shipment DECORATORS LAMPS, ANTIQUE ACCESSORIES, CHANDELIERS FROM FRANCE, ENGLAND, Mil) ITALY WILSHIRE HOUSE 400 Pacific, San Iraacitca, California 711-0331 11 i 4 i '1 ,4. f' Continued from Page 22 we get situated in a job or a training program of some 1 "I just talked to one student who gets $61 a week from the Bureau for him and his family to live on. His rent takes $31 a week so there are a couple of days a week when they have nothing to eat. They're supposed to have food and clothing and book allowances paid out of the $600, so that doesn't leave much money to live on. "As soon as you do have a job the Bureau says, well, you have a job now and you're off our list.

If you try to go back and get help through the Bureau again, you are just out of luck. There might be some instances when they help but you're considered an urban Indian now and you have to go through the state programs of poverty." Tribal Funds "Most of the Indians on Al-catraz are students, aren't they? Do they go to school at Bureau-sponsored schools or do they go on their own?" "Well, there are some Indian schools but most of the students have struggled to get into the regular colleges. Whether they get help or not depends a lot on the individual tribes. Some tribes have funds, like the Montana tribes have timber rights; they can use some of those funds to take care of some of their young Indians. "But you take South Dakota which is the home of the Sioux people; South Dakota is the biggest gold producing state in the Union and the Sioux people get none of that.

They get no money to help their students. Next to the Navajo, the Sioux people are the lowest in terms of health and education. We get no help from the Bureau of Indian Affairs either. I think if you asked the kids on the island, you wouldn't find one who has an educational grant from the Bureau." 'Poverty and Sickness' "In other words, once the Indian leaves the reservation he becomes an urban Indian and is more or less on his own." "Yes, that's right." This World, Sunday, December do the Indians leave the reservation?" "Well, there is so much poverty on tne reservation, poverty and sickness. There's nothing to do, everybody feels so useless.

The putside is built up as some great big Many the Indians leave the reservation expecting to find this paradise and when they get into the city they walk the streets. "I have seen whole families walking the streets with no place to go. We've tried to get funds from the Bureau to help with this problem, even revolving funds that we could pay back after we were situated, but it never comes to anything. The Bureau people even send sick Indians off the reservation; some of them have active tuberculosis and they send them, into the city where there are no jobs, no places to stay. "The Indians aren't white people.

Their whole philosophy and way of life is different. Our belief is essentially one of brotherhood. We have always welcomed everyone with open arms, even from the time of the Pilgrims. "Our prophecies told us that the white man was coming. When he did come we welcomed him.

We have always believed in the light from the East. We believed in the goodness of man and have taught our children these teachings for years, long before the missionaries came and told us our beliefs were bad. 'Goodness of Man' "The history books called us savages, but we had religious teachings long before the white man came to this country. We have always thought the body was beautiful and we must keep our minds and bodies in good health and be happy and satisfied with the life that nature provided us. We were also taught to share with everyone.

"We had a law of hospitality; kindness was considered one of the greatest virtues. If your enemy came to your tent you were to invite him in because who knows, after you talked with him awhile he might become a rather than an enemy. We were always taught not to do things spontaneously without thinking them through. There are many beliefs we Indians have that predate the white man," "We were able to teach the young the things that are not written down in books. We were to repeat these things time and again in practice but they were never written down.

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