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Show SHUMWAY PAGE 3 with this, we give them services for medical care, make sure they have adequate health resources available to them so that if there is a medical handicap, the problem can be removed or at least helped to the point where they are ab.le to function in some area to their maximum. And then we do quite a hit of preventive work, and I think this is where w.e're realizing more success than any other areas, in prevention. We will make sure that the kids are in school, and follow through with their school programs to make sure that they stay with it. To give you an idea of what this means, because I'm sure without knowing the full historical background of this, you wouldn't realize what has happened. 1962 is when we really s.tarted to work with the Indian people. We had programs for them b.efore, but it w.as very limiting, really not too much to offer them. In 19.62, why, there had been less than ten Indian people in the whole county that had ever graduated from high school. And, in 1962, this was when we started making our big push in trying to get services to the Indian people. From 1962 until 1967, we had about eighty graduate. Then in 1968, we had over eight graduate. Every year since then, it's b.een right around eighty Indian students graduating from high school. We had only one or two that had ever attempted to go into college. About three years ago we had, I think, about twenty-eigh.t in the post-high school program, whether |
