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...took him to New Mexico's Taos Indian pueblo to tape a show. Now suddenly here's my baby and my husband, Sheldon Wolfchild. Big Bird feels in the way." The singer originally went on the show to teach its 8 million viewers something about her own Cree culture and to show that "Indians say more than...
PEOPLE OF THE FIRST MAN. Edited by Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt. 256 pages. Dutton. $29.95. The Plains Indian warrior was not only proud but prosperous as well. Sioux, Minnetaree. Assiniboin, Cree and Mandan were among the tribes who lived in high style before the European invaders manifested their destiny. The Indians' chief sources of wealth were the bison and the horse. In 1883 the German explorer and naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied and his Swiss-born companion, Artist Karl Bodmer, traveled among the tribes. The result was Maximilian's diaries, packed with details of Indian life...
Attorneys representing the province of Quebec found all this quaint but irrelevant. Their argument was simple, traditional and arrogant: how could a handful of primitives in a vast wilderness stand in the way of progress? The government also tried to persuade the judge that Cree and Eskimos were eagerly embracing the white man's ways. Considerable effort was made to produce a witness who had seen Indians eating Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...bureaucrats add up to a stultifying litany. Boyce Richardson, a New Zealand journalist, skillfully blends both sides in his documentary about the cri sis of a culture. The cumulative effect of his book is like being overtaken by a glacier. Even when describing the rich life in a Cree hunting camp, where he produced an award-winning film, Richardson cannot really mask his sense of fatalism. He accepts the fact that the Indians must give ground. The dominant culture naturally asserts its necessities, even though they may go hand in hand with waste and inefficiency. The James Bay Project...
Paper Promises. By any historical standard, the outcome of the Indian case could have been worse. Last month the Cree and Inuit agreed to relinquish all claims to their vast lands in return for $225 million, plus specific hunting, fishing and trapping rights and some voice in the governing and development of the region. But there remain Indians still un satisfied by the deal - and who can wholly blame them? It is one of the laws governing the balance of human nature that paper and promises erode much faster than real estate...