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Alexander Pope

JAMA. 1970;213(1):118.

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In his essay, "The Navajo," (p 17) Irvine has presented a bleak picture of Indian reservation life. The growing Navajo population suffers poverty, educational deficiency, miserable housing, little or no sanitation, a high rate of infant mortality, malnutrition, and a prevalence of illnesses that elsewhere have declined.

According to another source, there are about 650,000 American Indians in the United States today, and less than one third of them have moved away from reservations into cities (The New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac, 1970). Father Peter Powell, director of St. Augustine's Center, Chicago, estimates that there are some 15,000 American Indians in that city. Representatives of as many as 50 different tribes may arrive in a month. Although families are scattered throughout the city, most of them are concentrated at the north side. Some of the young city dwellers have an air of militancy, but the greater part of the population . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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