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Excerpt from Juvenile Delinquency (Indians): Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Fourth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 62; Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States
The hearings in North Dakota indicated an increase in the problem of delinquency among Indians in North Dakota. The subcommittee found that the major contributing factors to this delinquency are: poverty and extremely poor living conditions; lack of effective law and order; disorganized family life; poor educational programs; and the difficulties the Indians find in making the transition from the old to the new culture.
Other contributing factors are: poor health conditions, inadequate welfare services, and the lack of local leadership for community action on the reservation.
All of the above contributing factors to delinquency seem to have been accentuated by the guardian ward relationship between the Ih dians and the Federal Government, which has completely reversed its policy toward the Indians twice during the last 100 years. The result of this has been general demoralization of the Indians and has led to evils experienced now, such as excessive di inking by adults and children alike, loose sex practices, desertions, and general decay of family life.
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