Country's original residents get screwed - again

if anybody could make an argument for sealing the borders and deporting all the foreigners back to their own soil, it would be the native americans... unfortunately, that's still the big, smelly, shit-covered elephant in the living room of u.s. history, an elephant which, btw, we're still feeding and that's still crapping all over the place...

Funding ends Sept. 1 for the Center for American Indian and Minority Health, one of three centers in U.S. medical schools that focus on encouraging Indians to go into health professions. That will cut its budget by 83 percent, from $1.325 million to $225,000.

At risk are programs that work with talented middle school and high school youth and college undergraduates. Those programs helped the U [of Minnesota] graduate more than 100 Indian physicians since 1990, more than all but one other American university.

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[University of Minnesota Medical School Dean Deborah] Powell credits the program for the fact that 17 of the 200 students who start medical school on the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses this fall are Indians. Those students come from across the nation, drawn by the opportunity to work on reservations, study with Indian doctors and take classes dealing with issues such as how medicine intersects with traditional healing practices.

but, hey... when the social contract gets cancelled, nobody gets spared... besides, if you can't cut it on your own, it probably means that you're no damn good, lazy, and ignorant...

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