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okay, adjustment is frequently very difficulty, and these Children find it difficult. I think they said that their only two on it might not even be to just one child that's graduated from high school in the last 50 years. It was true that there are. It's obviously

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fewer and fewer jobs for the unskilled in the untrained so that these Children will have a very difficult time unless they have the training and education. Uh, almost. It's almost true now, and certainly will be true in the 19 seventies. At a high school diploma is

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not going to be sufficient. You gonna have to have a college diploma. And where there is a tradition amongst the Indians not to finish their education and drop out from school and then to lead jobs, they're going They're having a very difficult time. Doesn't happen of

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Indian border on a national disgrace. I e. Just think that the situation is very unfortunate at the moment. Uh, it's not just a question of expenditure of funds. It's a question of the interest by the state and by the federal government in the Indians. On Secondly,

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it's also going to be a major effort by the Indians themselves. Do you think there's no question that the Indians have been ignored part of our population? Do you think these students would have a better chance in an integrated school? I just don't know whether that's

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going to be the answer. They go to an integrated school later on. Andi have a on many difficulties in many problems. I think that the people themselves would have to explore that one. It might be one of the problems. It was mid afternoon when Senator Robert

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Kennedy arrived here of the Kashia Indian Reservation, about 100 miles from San Francisco. The senator is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Education and is taking a Siris of tours throughout the country to find out just what the problems are in Indian schools. The school

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here, it Casillas considered unique because it's ran by a school board with all Indian members. Although there are only 14 students in grades one through eight who attend this one room school, there is a great deal of community interests, and the senator is here to find

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out just how it all works. Tomorrow, the senator moves to San Francisco, where he and his committee will hear testimony about conditions in American Indian schools. Belvin Davis for eyewitness news at the Kashia Indian Reservation.