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Some Implications for a Preventive Program for American Indians

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.232

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.

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