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unity and standards - here we are failing our children in tragio fashion.
In addition to individual responsibility and effort, a further essential to the development of our Indian people consists in united effort, in community planning and organization wherever we happen to live. The Community Organization Workshop of the National Congress of American Indians held at Brigham City, Utah, in June, demonstrated in thrilling fashion the presence of native Indian leadership, of interest and concern that we improve our Indian community life. The sharing of ideas and convictions during the Workshop evidenced atrikingly that our Indian probleme are mutual, that no one of our problema is unique to our particular community, and further, that no one of our Indian problems is truly unique to our Indian people - the needs of our people are the basic needs of all people overywhere.
It seems to me that we have too often in the past felt that somo how we were quite different, that as Indians we needed & special understanding. I my very well shock many of you when I say that I au convinced we need to rid ourselves of that attitude. If we do, we can work with other people, other organisations and agencies, and in that cooperative effort we shall find ourselves truly a part of our local communities, of our individual states, and of our federal government, Human needs and problems are basically the same anywhere in the world, and only as peoples and nations generously and unselfishiy work and live together will there by any hope for adequato opportunity for all men to live peacefully and to utilize oonstructively the highest qualities of the human spirit.
We are confronted with many social and economto problems in our Indian communities - family disorganization, poor housing - our hames