The possibility Tarahumara culture included different values, which would seem unusual to Anglo culture, was not considered. I am one of the attorneys who have filed suit for Rita against many of the health professionals who we believe violated Rita's rights by keeping her institutionalized all those years. We have been able to get Rita out of the hospital and back to the State of Chihuahua, where she is hopefully becoming reintegrated into her own world. We are interested in finding mental health professionals, social workers and other professionals who could help us establish the standard of care in dealing with Native Americans who have not been swallowed by Euro-American culture. Best would be people who are able to speak Raramari.
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They do not appear here in chronological order, but in the order the Star numbered them. We will need all the help we can get. We also are going to need some people who have experience in fund raising who can help us get something started to help Rita financially as well as to defray the legal costs involved in pursuing her suit.