The first Americans, the Indians, are the most deprived and most isolated minority group in our nation on virtually every scale of measurement; unemployment, income, education, health-the condition of Indian people ranks at the bottom.
Nixon highlighted the dire conditions faced by Native Americans in 1970.
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