Word: goverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks are definitely at home. Says Mayor Lester Gover, 84: "You won't find Bird in no guidebooks -- but then you won't find Kansas either, least in some guidebooks I've seen. That don't stop it being a neat little place to live and die in though." If you ask for a Teflon cake pan at East West Hardware, you are still told that is the sort of thing you are more likely to find in Baxter, 30 miles away, according to Marilyn Ryman, now living in Los Angeles. Her description of her homecomings: "Like seeing...
...citizenship and the vote to all Indians. But it was not until 1968 that Congress extended guarantees of free speech and due process to Indians on reservations, ensuring that tribal custom did not preclude constitutional rights. The Reagan Administration has been dealing with the tribes on a government-to-gover nment basis in a reaffirmation of Indian sovereignty. Despite recent moves toward greater economic development and self-government, in many respects the Indians remain an occupied nation. The suffering has merely slowed, not stopped...