Excerpt from Challenges Confronting American Indian Youth, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session Oversight Hearing on Challenges Confronting American Indian Youth Senator inouye. The committee meets this morning to receive testimony from those Federal agencies that administer programs authorized to address challenges confronting American Indian youth. This morning's hearing is a followup to an oversight hearing which was held by this committee 1 month ago on February 9. At that time, the committee received testimony from young In dian men and women representing reservation communities and urban areas across Indian country regarding the challenges facing them as Indian youth. The testimony of tribal youth was an impor tant opportunity for the committee to hear from a new generation of Indian leaders. These young men and women identified critical challenges they face, including alcohol and substance abuse, sexual and child abuse, suicide, educational needs, employment needs, teenage pregnancy, environmental challenges, violence, and the in filtration of gangs in reservation and urban Indian communities, and cultural isolation in urban areas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.