Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members also try to minimize the impact of the visiting committee criticism, saying that only one member of the committee is responsible for the bulk of the CRP section of the report. All the members of the visiting committee contacted this fall deny this, however. One individual drafted the document but he wrote it after extensive discussion with other visitors. Daniel P. Paul '46, a member of the Board of Overseers and the chairman of the GSD committee, says "the '76 report was circulated to all members. It was presented and accepted. No one got excited until it was leaked...
...most effective method of destroying an entire color of man is through government subsidized and coerced control and sterilization of women. The genocide document illustrates the abuse of birth control. Twenty-four per cent of Native women have been sterilized. Nineteen per cent are of child-bearing age. For every seven babies born, one Indian woman is sterilized." In 1973 Sen James Abourezk (D-S.D.) requested a General Accounting Office report on sterilization at Indian Health Service facilities. The GAO report (B-164031-5) monitored four IHS areas. The GAO report findings state, "Between 1973 and 1976, in four...
...government. It was established under treaties to complement existing native medicine and to protect Indian culture from the new diseases brought by the Europeans. IHS has proved hopelessly inadequate for Indian needs. Government control became neglect of Indian people, creating widespread health problems. As the Treaty Council's Genocide Document, submitted to the conference, states, "Some 38 percent of Native children were found to have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians. ...On the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota), Indians are 40 times more likely than...
...document continues, "The infant mortality rate for Native Americans is about 31 per cent more than that of whites in the US...In addition to the high percentage of infant mortality...the poor status of Indian health is exemplified in comparative statistics on life expectance, which is 47 years for Native people compared to 70.8 years for the general population...
...opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate? Says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who testified on behalf of the pact: "A mistake was made in the beginning...