Archive Report
Archive Report
Status of the Indian in American Life
A Ten-Year Plan of rehabilitation for the Navajo and the Hopi, two of the most destitute tribes of American Indians, is being pressed for adoption by Congress as a first step in extending benefits of the President's Fair Deal program to the Indian people. In recommending legislation to improve the social and economic condition of the Navajo and Hopi, President Truman said, Mar. 4: “The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.”
The administration bill to aid the Navajo and Hopi Indians calls for undertakings which it says are “essential in combatting hunger, disease, poverty and demoralization.”1 These words are ...