Commentary

The papers in this issue emphasize, on the one hand, the complicated nature of individual situations facing tribal groups, and, on the other hand, outline the fact that all Indians face problems general to their ethnic group and in many respects common to all peoples confronted by necessary and seemingly inevitable transformations in their ways of life. To paraphrase Kluckhohn and Mowrer, all Indians are like all other subjected peoples, like all other Indians, like some other Indians and like no other Indians. It is evident, too, that the situations which Indian tribes and which Indians generally confront are seated in cultural, social, psychological, ecological, and historical variables, each of which is a complex of interrelated factors, and that these broad sets of variables, in turn, are interconnected and constitute a system despite the contradictory and opposing trends which they sometimes exhibit

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