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Dropping in on a class in the Eskimo language at Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau learned one phrase -possibly the only one a visitor needs in that bleak settlement. The word is takva oost, and it means goodbye...
...indignant at being misnamed by "some dumb honky who got lost," to use the words of a Berkeley student whom TIME ironically refers to as a "Sioux"-a good old honky name for the Lakota or Dakota people. But then, so would the Innuit, who were misnamed "Eskimo" by their traditional enemy, the "Indians." No racial insult was intended in the first misnaming-I'm sure plenty was intended in the second! And by the way, the artist whose photo you show is probably no more an Indian than is his pottery tableau of three Eskimos wearing Inland Caribou...
...second half of the course, the youngsters study movies, stories and special materials about a primitive Eskimo culture. They learn that what seems like a very simple way of life has all the complex relationships found in modern urban society: kinship systems, trading, mythology...
...death. One Beatle is portrayed in a walrus suit on the front cover, and the song "I Am the Walrus" ends side one. LaBour made the unsubstantiated assertion in his story that "walrus" means "corpse" in Greek- somehow. It has also been rumored that the walrus is an Eskimo symbol of death, but LaBour says that he has studied the Eskimos and knows of no such symbol...
...finding his confidence again on other fronts. As Democratic whip, Kennedy happily took over the majority leadership last week during a brief absence by Mike Mansfield. He skillfully managed to restore $3.9 million in committee to an education program for Eskimo and Indian children -and was scheduled to meet in New Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project...