Virginian-Pilot


DATE: Wednesday, October 1, 1997            TAG: 9710010404

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Focus 

SOURCE: BY TONY PUGH, KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE 

DATELINE: WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.                LENGTH:   23 lines

FOCUS: A NEW INDIAN EXODUS? IT IS ONE OF WELFARE REFORM'S GREATEST IRONIES. VIOLENCE, LIES AND BROKEN TREATIES FORCED AMERICAN INDIANS ONTO RESERVATIONS IN THE 1800S. NOW, NEW RULES FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS COULD WELL PUSH THOUSANDS OF THEM OFF.

ILLUSTRATION: KNIGHT-RIDDER TRIBUNE PHOTOS

Dorothy Sun Bear and daughter, Rhiannon...

KRT Map

NATIVE AMERICAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS

SOURCE: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, SOuth Dakota Dept.

of Social Services KEYWORDS: WELFARE REFORM INDIANS NATIVE AMERICANS

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