Word: aih
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...easy. Indian students who consider college at all are more likely to think of state schools, where there are special programs for them. Sam says that, being realistic, he doesn't expect a very high proportion of the students AIH has contacted actually to apply "because of the distance from home, the strangeness of the place...
Morres has not been active in AIH because, he says, he hasn't "gotten around to it." Later he volunteers more of an explanation, a trifle defensively. "Now that I'm here, it would be a waste of time for me to spend time working with AIH, because I have to prepare for what I'm going to do later on. It's an individual thing. I'm not the kind of person who can speak to large groups of people. I feel better about working on an individual basis, and investing in myself. But I have no desire...
While she is here, she is devoting much of her time to building an Indian community through the AIH recruiting program, but she admits that it is hard to convince people from her reservation to come so far away to a place where there are so few Indians...
...There has been no organized effort at recruitment by the University--it was only by the efforts of the four of us (AIH members) that the groundwork was laid," she points out with a note of bitterness. "There are some concerned people in the administration who have encouraged us. But there are some people who feel, give them a little and they'll be satisfied...
Patterson is an active member of AIH and has gone back home to recruit for them. The members of the group have "a mutual base by virtue of our being Indian," she says, "but we live our own lives." Eventually, she would like to work "in the health field" on a reservation, whether her own or another she hasn't decided...