Some Implications for a Preventive Program for American Indians
ROBERT L. LEON M.D.1
1 Professor and chairman, department of psychiatry, University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, 715 Stadium Dr., San Antonio, Tex. 78212
Efforts to combat the psychosocial stresses existing within the Indian community should focus upon involving the Indian in the determination of his own fate. The author outlines a new role for the federal government in its historic relationship to the Indians—not as the traditional program developer but as a resource out of which constructive responses can be made to goals formulated by the Indian people themselves.
