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...stay far from the paddling crowd. Says Dave Carleson, who manufactures, rents and sells canoes in Portland, Ore.: "Most people want to enjoy the sounds of the wilderness, or watch riverbank creatures, or explore a lily-pad-laden inlet, or hear the sound of water stirred by their paddles." Hiawatha would have bought that-if not the Potawatomis...
...Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Unhappily, the purity of the tribal footage is often adulterated with synthetic ingredients. When it is in English, the dialogue is an unstable amalgam of Shylock and Hiawatha: "When you fight the enemy and arrows pierce your skin, you bleed like all men." And in the part of Running Deer's mother, Dame Judith Anderson is relegated to pantomimic mother-in-law jokes. Despite these lapses-and a pseudopoetic slow-motion lyricism-A Man Called Horse has one estimable benefit: it avoids the white-race-is-the-cancer-of-history reproof that has marred much of the New Indian...
...years in a row. More deeply, Negroes have discovered that they are the worst hurt victims of ghetto violence. Along with their desire for self-preservation goes a strong drive for self-determination. Instead of incinerating their neighborhoods, many have begun concentrating on building them up. Dr. Hiawatha Harris, head of a psychiatric clinic in Watts, echoes the common belief that "the rioting phase, where we burn down businesses in our own areas, is over now. The whole movement is in another direction-toward implementing black power and finding our dignity as a people...
Female Taboo. The choice of specialty is also limited. Los Angeles Psychiatrist Hiawatha Harris once dreamed of concentrating in obstetrics but soon found that this was the most tabooed field of all. In some medical schools, Negro students until recently were not allowed to go on obstetric rounds. Even city and county hospitals with mostly nonwhite patients, barred Negroes on the off-chance that they might have to examine a white woman...