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...onto the Indians' ancestral hunting grounds with rigs and drilling permits from the U.S. Interior Department. The Indians, who had not been consulted, countered by winning a court injunction and $15,000 in fees for the right to drill. But the funds were under the control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and when the Tyonek village council tried to tap the account for needed improvements, the bureau was slow to respond. The Tyoneks were even more unhappy when the Interior Department in 1963 began soliciting bids for the long-range leasing of exploration rights on the reservation. Though...
...office building in Anchorage was blocked by the city council, the Indians pointedly went to Seattle to buy $1,500,000 worth of home furnishings. Local merchants took the hint, pressured the authorities in Anchorage into issuing a permit for the building-whose first tenant will be the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tyonek next outflanked an electrical cooperative that had been pushing for higher rates for serving the village. By a stroke of luck, gas had just been discovered, and the village decided to use it to generate its own electricity. If all goes well, the Tyonek Indians may become...
...aided on frequent occasions by correspondents going in from Hong Kong and Washington. The U.S. military presence then totaled about 16,000. Today, with 335,000 U.S. military on the scene, the TIME-LIFE team includes 14 correspondents and photographers plus a group of ten South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
Ronald Alford, 24, was having a hectic day. Illness and vacation had left him the only reporter in the Memphis bureau of the Associated Press. That morning he had been trudging a dusty road south of the city covering James Meredith's march into Mississippi, but at 1:30 he had returned to the unmanned office. Now the news was coming through that Meredith had been shot, and Alford was in a bind...
...Arcy McNickle, SC.D., former staff member of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Scholar, writer, educator and leader of American Indians...