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-3- [[left hand margin]] omit theater the morning papers would report us among the missing and the world would go on and perhaps the theater would be rebuilt and except for our children or relatives, no one would know the difference - so again the word "must" loses some of its meaning. When I say that we must solve the Indian problem, I say it in much the same way. We can let the thing ride for another 100 years if we want to, but if we do there will be thousands of Indian children who fail to get a proper education and waste their lives, or men and women who spend months in hospitals ill from tuberculosis, while their families long for them to get well, and many old folks who will die poverty stricken. In short, thousands of people, just like you and I will continue to live in illness, misery, insecurity and unhappiness if we do not solve the Indian problem. [[left hand margin]] omit The last hundred years of history would then repeat itself. Someone has said, "Much history is so bad that it is not fit to repeat itself", and certainly that is true of Indian History in America. The Indian cannot save himself alone - he needs a good deal of help at least at the start. However, since becoming interested in this Indian matter I have observed one thing about which I am going to speak very plainly. We speak freely about the Indian problem. I think it would be much better if we were to say the Indian's problem. [[strikethrough]] Someone has said that the Constitutions guarantees the pursuit of happiness, but you have to catch up with it yourself. [[/strikethrough]] It is more the problem and the responsibility of you Indian leaders than it is of us white folks to work out a solution. It is more the responsibility of you Indians than it is the responsibility of the the Federal government to find the answer to your problems. Perhaps it isn't proper for me, who has never lived on a reservation and who has no Indian blood, to be talking so pointedly to you
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