Our people are very family, communal orientated, and mainstream institutions are very competitive and very individualistic, and you see some models in mainstream institutions that do have wonderful Indian support programs. In North Dakota where I live, we have the Indians Into Medicine Program— INMED— and we believe that our INMED program in North Dakota has successfully helped graduate about twenty-five percent of the Native physicians in this country, which is a wonderful record.
[Lindberg:]
That’s amazing, yeah.
[Lindquist:]
And we like to tout that, but its success is because of having more cultural concepts of family orientation.