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National Geographic : 1974 Aug
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tribe to federal-trust status, the United States has at last made a clear reversal of a policy which was wrong, the policy of forcibly ter minating Indian tribal status." Termination Taught Some Lessons There are Menominees who still have doubts about a return to the fold. "All my life BIA has been the fly in the ointment, and it's one thing I question about restoration," said Delores Boyd, director of the Child Development Center. "I certainly wouldn't want youngsters today to grow up feeling the Menominees are just getting handouts from the government. But is there any other way to save our land? Though termination was wrong, it did have some good effects. Ten years ago we believed whatever the white man told us. Termination made people a bit more demanding of their rights." Mrs. Boyd took me on a tour of the ramb ling old Bureau of Indian Affairs school that the Menominees had turned into a child-care center. Eying the 90 children in her charge, she said: "I hope we can give our children the pride they need. The real aim of our program is to make the kids Indians, and to do some thing about the major health problems that can hold them back all their lives." The old bureau hospital is closed now turned into a courthouse after failing to meet modern standards. Two community-health nurses and a part-time National Health Ser vice doctor bring medical care to the Menom inees. Anemia, tuberculosis, and alcoholism are the major problems. 249
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