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Yeah, yeah. For instance, One of our classes last year had 150, not in the incident, There was only about three or 4 Indians enrolled in the class and we found a tremendous amount of interest from anthropology, history and sociology students who take our classes and uh

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we find that we're breaking down the racial barriers were helping in this matter. Also, there's a complete lack of knowledge about indians and there's been a lot of fairy tales mysteries and uh what have you that have been created by this lack of literature on indians.

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And so we feel it's uh part of our opportunity, our job here to educate non indians about indians. Do you think it's a more important for whites to be taking indian courses than indians? I think so overall in this respect, There are we make up less

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than one half of 1% of the total population and people in this country no more about Europe than they do about American Indians. And when you do find something in the literature about Indians, it's either fiction or it's so distorted that you can't make heads or

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tails of the average person in this country knows absolutely nothing about indians and what he has picked up. He's picked it up through uh the stereotypes that have been created by the movies and television and so forth. These dime novels where they depict indians as savages,

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masochist and so forth, like this latest movie horse has been produced uh due to the lack of literature on indians. The average american in this country knows about. The only thing he knows about any incident. We don't attack the wagon train after darkness, and if we

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do attack the wagon train, we have to attack one in a circle. And uh, what they teach in this country is european history under the guise of american history, because you don't find a damn thing about indians in your history books.