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iv.VriJ iv rrr-y '17-7 I wm im mm TheGty continued "The urban Indian 's most devastating problem is unemployment. 99 '4- 0- 2Ss Mow miMMfle tUnaum eveF ttMs ffire lkok cair titoife irfigDntt for ynun. CAR BUYING MADE EASIER The kind of leverage that blacks and other minorities seem to have developed by slow, painful steps just does not exist among Indians. "There's no capital in the Indian community," says Phillips. "And there isn't any philanthropy, either.

The Indian is good to make movies about and to have art shows, but as far as getting into something big like health well, for instance, the sickle cell anemia drive. What an impact!" But it doesn't happen like that with Indians, he notes. "There simply aren't enough of us to count." Of all minorities, Indians are probably the most misunderstood and hence difficult to help. Their natural reluctance to speak up is sometimes misinterpreted by whites as indicating sulleness or hostility. Add to that the fact that there isn't just one Indian culture, but fifty or a hundred.

"If a Seneca and a Navajo were put in the same room," says Andrade, "they might not even be able to communicate. They don't speak the same language." The urban Indian's most devastating problem is undoubtedly unem-. ployment. In San Francisco, says Mrs. Cottier, a staggering 30 percent are without jobs.

H. Dan Amerson, the Mayor's Indian community liaison man, declares that a good share of the blame for this can be leveled at the BIA. "The Bureau brings them here," says Amerson, a Chickasaw. "And then it mistrains and misplaces them. When aerospace was laying off a lot of electronics technicians down the Peninsula, for instance, what was the BIA doing? Training Indian students in electronics.

Pretty soon the Indian starts thinking about going back to the reservation. But there are no jobs there, either." This psychic tug-of-war between city and reservation is constant. Take the problem of drinking. In Phillips view, a reservation Indian is far less likely to become an alcoholic than his city brethren. "If he gets drunk he can go home, sleep it off and there's usually mom or grandma or someone to nurse him back.

Here in The City, though, it becomes a pattern, a way of life. He drinks, he wakes up in the morning and there's nothing but four walls, so right away he heads downstairs and meets the same friends he drank with the night before, and it starts all over again." Urbanization has had other unpleasant effects for the Indian, too. For example, Indian couples who continued CoMomia Living MagazineFebruary 17, 1974 We listen; And we know that these days there's a lot of concern about the fuel shortage. About inflation and rising costs. If you're in the market for a new car, these things probably will influence what kind of car you buy.

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