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Harassment by police is the target of a sophisticated Indian uprising in Minneapolis, which has one of the few Indian ghettos in any city. There Clyde Bellecourt, 33, a tough Chippewa who has spent 14 years behind bars, has organized an "Indian Patrol." Dressed in red jackets, its members use short-wave radios to follow police activity, then show up to observe the cops silently whenever an Indian gets into trouble. After the patrol was formed, there were no arrests of Indians for 22 straight weekends. Ironically, it was during a prison term for burglary that Bellecourt decided he could...
...N.C.C. is already making an impact far beyond Many Farms. Chippewa Indians from Minnesota have visited the reservation to investigate and are now working to establish a community college of their own. At least eight Pueblo tribes in New Mexico are talking seriously of following the Navaho example...
...scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan's Big Blue Ox. In recent years, another Bunyan, or another Babe, seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which the remaining ore was pocketed appeared too hard and the ore of too low a grade for profitable mining...
...recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish her legitimacy. At the end squaw gets fortune and lawyer gets squaw...
...MARTIN Chippewa Falls...