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Show # 1044 Page 48 our work involves requests for assistance in trying to handle these. We're doing some work in education, some work in law reform. And we've been trying, so far, to deal with all the requests we can - we get in trying to get some kind of an answer ah, that we hope is helpful. I don't see anybody here that I, that we have actually failed to help, so I can feel pretty safe about that. There are a couple of people, I think, we've probably not done very much for. But ah, we're trying at that. Now, frankly I don't know very much about Indian juvenile law. Ah, in fact, ah, I am standing here with a much greater amount of humility then when I came this morning because after I listened to the discussion about jurisdiction this morning, and heard Mr. Becker ah, citing statutes and quoting from cases, I suddenly realized, I'm probably out of my league here. But we'll do the best we can. We'll talk about juvenile problems because - then I - then it occurred to me, really, that ah, that, it'll, juvenile law is a, is an area that is really unique, after all, the primary underlying assumption of juvenile law is that children are wards of the state, that they're not competent to deal with their owni affairs, that the government has to act for them. Of course, you never heard about that before, have you? In fact, the Government, of course, always acts in the best interest of the child, |
