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...Broken Treaties episode was merely the most publicized aspect of a genuine Indian uprising, which has turned the BIA into a shambles. While most Americans were settling down to Thanksgiving turkey, bands of Indians staged protests in Gallup, N.M., at Fort Robinson in Nebraska, and on Mayflower II in Massachusetts, where Indians scaled the rigging, hauled down the Union Jack and burned it on Plymouth Rock. Meanwhile the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco revealed a stunning decision, a ruling that the Government is obliged to perform the same services for urban Indians-nearly one-half...
...with more cautious pragmatism than panache." The Prime Minister was also suffering from television overexposure and a perilously short temper. Once he had demanded of Western farmers: "Why should I sell your wheat?" On another occasion, he rebuffed a group of demonstrators with the sarcastic comment "Where's Bia-fra?" Still another time, he told a group of striking mail-truck drivers to "mangez de la merde...
...became evident, after we issued our charges in January, that we had neither an ally nor an adversary at the BIA," Mark Yudof, staff attorney with the Harvard Center for Law and Education, said yesterday...
...BIA was not sufficiently prepared to deal with the problem," Yudof continued. "It could not draw up new guidelines because it had neither the technical capabilities nor the experience in education. We will supply both...
Yudof wants the Indian community to have an opportunity to review, and, if necessary, change the suggested guidelines. "As technical assistants to the BIA we do not represent all Indian tribes," Yudof said. "We really have no right to tell Indians what they want...