Obama, who was greeted by a large crowd — many in traditional clothing — pledged to deliver world-class health care and education to tribal nations and to “shake-up” the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. “Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans,” he told the cheering crowd in Crow Agency, Mont.
Obama told several thousand American Indian supporters that he would honor long-ignored treaty obligations and revamp health care and education on reservations across the United States. Such services have long suffered due to inadequate funding and the much criticized oversight of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. “Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans, the first Americans,” Obama said. “That will change when I am president of the United States.”
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