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Yellow Bird: Reflecting on Civil Rights Act of 1964
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
"In North Dakota, there were few black people and on the reservation, the only discrimination or poor treatment usually came from the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs and usually because of their ineptness.
The periphery of the reservation and reservation towns was a different story. There was racism.
Things have changed for the better for Native people. I agreed with some of my colleagues about that, but it is not all that great, I tried to tell them. There still is discrimination; maybe it's whispered, but it still is there."
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