Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's recommendations, certain to be made law at Parliament's next session, had a practical side. Supporting the Indians is a heavy burden. From $5 million in 1936, the cost has risen to $22 million this year. Since the Indian population is increasing at a rate of about 1,500 a year, the oldtime policy may soon cost more than the country can afford...
...third of Canada's Indians, the bush tribes in the north, are nomadic and primitive, their children (10,000 of them) unschooled. The remaining two-thirds live on reservations, are divided roughly into the poor and backward in the northern half of the provinces and the progressive bands who live farther south. Changing the way of life of the Indians on the 2,250 reservations scattered across Canada will be at best a slow job. Even the rich Indian likes the security of the reservation, often returns to it in old age, wants to be buried in its cemetery...
Fury at Furnace Creek (20th Century-Fox) is a better-than-average western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
...Dailey) sticks to him longer han his two confectionery blonde daughters, and this protracted loyalty gives Dailey a chance to do some insignificant but pleasant singing and dancing. But finally he too concludes that life with his best girl (Nancy Guild) is preferable to a routine of Indian clubs and straw...
...Without the usual polite little note of farewell, President Truman dropped Dr. Thomas Parran from his job as: 1. White House physician. 2. Army Surgeon General. 3. Navy Surgeon General. 4. U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General. 5. Medical advisor for Indian reservations...