2003: ‘A Quiet Crisis’ focuses on unmet funding needs

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission releases a report titled “A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country.” It finds that “American Indian youths are twice as likely to commit suicide … Native Americans are 630 percent more likely to die from alcoholism, 650 percent more likely to die from tuberculosis, 318 percent more likely to die from diabetes, and 204 percent more likely to suffer accidental death compared with other groups.”

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Federal-Tribal Relations

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Arctic, California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, Subarctic