Volume 22, Number 4 · March 20, 1975
Children and Politics: Outsiders
By Robert Coles
How do Hopi or Pueblo boys or girls in Arizona and New Mexico regard the United States of America, its leaders, its political system, and its traditions as a democracy? As one spends time with those boys and girls it is, more often than not, hard to believe that the scene is the United States of America. There is enormous indifference among the children to the political authority that is vested in Washington or the various state capitals. The Indians in theory have their own nations—but for all practical purposes they live on reservations under the control of the federal government, which runs schools and supposedly provides medical care for, and looks after the 'welfare' of, half a million rural people. (Perhaps another half million, it is hard to estimate precisely, live in our cities.)
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