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the conference at the American Indian center in San Francisco was attended by native american women from all over the country. They came to beat the drums for indian power on all fronts the new and somewhat untraditional idea for Indian women was born in San Francisco with

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the purpose of rallying the Sioux, the Winnebago, Tulalip, Chippewa, and other tribal females around the culture and the problems of indians from the retaking of ancient indian land to fishing rights. The group is called the National Indian Women's Action Corps. I talked with some of the

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delegates about the purpose of the we're having workshops this afternoon on various subjects such as education and welfare. Uh mainly we're having one on chapter organization. So we hope that when the women leave here that they will want to go back and start a chapter of

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their own, what kinds of problems will you be attacking through your group? Well education. We have three different women that will be working on education that our educators themselves, doctor being medicine went on a sample um, will be chairing Pat Lock, they're all teachers and are

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actively involved in indian education. They'll be chairing that meeting. We have people that will be on health dr miller who is a social scientist will be chairing that meeting along with jenny jo who is a registered nurse and a Navajo also. So we will be discussing

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health problems too. Yeah, the watchword of the group is organized, spokesman urged women of indian heritage to contact the american indian center to 25 valencia street. We're not here to whine and complain. You know, people with a lot of troubles. We define all of the women

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here have defined these troubles into problems that we see the cause. We we suffer the effects and we're here to arrive at solutions and how we can help in the rebirth movement of the Red Man. What kinds of objectives do you have? I heard talks about

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the Pitt river indian problems and the indians in Washington State have problems. What kinds of objectives does the conference have? I think it says, you know, strengthening the family unit which will affect, you know, everything. It's uh, you know, every indian mother raises their sons and

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we need to get in and fight the schools to stop them from busting the spirits of our sons. We need to get in and uh stop our indian Children from being taken away from our families and uh, you know, put into white foster homes, put into

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mormon racist homes and different things like this, where they bust them down and cause them to have all the problems, alcoholism, drugs and social dis organizations. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news