Word: chippewa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chippewa Falls...
...Connecticut, the Narragansetts in Rhode Island, the Oneidas in New York. The Catawbas of South Carolina contend they are entitled to 144,000 acres that embrace the cities of Rock Hill and Fort Mill. The roll call of litigant tribes is like a Whitmanesque iteration: Miccosukee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Chippewa. Seven Oklahoma tribes-Kaw, Ponca, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Otoe, Osage, Creek-are shaping up a suit to assert a collective claim to the bed-and attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most turn not on claims to land but on issues of land use, of rights...
...June 4, 1763 the Sac Indian tribe and the Chippewa tribe were playing a game outside an English fort in Canada. The object of the game was to club--or crosse--opposing players senseless. Amused, the men of the fort came out to watch, leaving the fort unguarded...
Over the past two years, Chippewa Dennis Banks has emerged as an angry and outspoken leader of the militant American Indian Movement. With his hair in braids, he has preached a return to traditional Indian ways, including the ancient religions and methods of education. He wants Indian tribes to abandon their white-imposed system of elections and revert to a selection of chiefs by a kind of consensus of medicine men and district leaders...
...state's other significant minority, its 23,000 Indians, most of them Chippewa, are clearly the most poverty-stricken residents. About half of them live in the Twin Cities, mainly in Minneapolis, in a tight ghetto that is the only really shabby area of town. The other half live on seven reservations, also in poverty, but with considerably more dignity. The Red Lake Chippewa are developing a logging industry, a sawmill and a small fish cannery. At Grand Portage Reservation in Northeastern Minnesota, the tribe is planning a resort complex. Says Ernie Landgren, 38: "Now we've got more opportunities...