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By Susan Montoya Bryan
Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP) August 2010
A number of civil rights violations have gone unreported in Indian Country because community members have not been told where to go with their complaints, a former government official said.
Federal agencies should do more to make themselves known within Indian communities, said John Dulles, the former regional director for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. For government workers, he said, that means traveling – sometimes for hours – to remote reservations to meet with people.
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