Plight of Indians

Thank you for your editorial (Aug. 13) regarding the plight of the Columbia River Indians, because of the broken promises of the federal government. Another example of such ill-treatment is the forced relocation of 10,000 Hopi/Navajo Indians from their ancestral homelands in the Four Corners area of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, to make way for leasing their land to the Peabody Coal Co. and utilities.

It is a shame that our “liberal” politicians who spend their time frothing at the mouth about events in South Africa, Nicaragua, Chile, and wherever, cannot spare any time to correct these indignities imposed on these original Native Americans.

JOHN N.S. WHITE

Los Angeles