Word: indianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back to the caller. "I liked it," the President observed at the end of the grilling. "The questions that came in from people all over the country are the kind that you would never get in press conferences. The news people would never raise them, like the Ottawa Indian question...
When an old Passamaquoddy Indian woman in Maine 20 years ago asked her tribal governor to look at some ancient, fragile documents she had in a cardboard box under her bed, she had no idea that they might be important. Yet one of the items in her cache was the 1794 treaty that her ancestors had struck with Massachusetts; in it, they ceded virtually all their land to the state. The find set off what has since become one of the largest Indian land claims in modern U.S. history. The 3,500 Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians in what...
Less Trifling. The Indians' legal argument is that the treaties they made beginning 183 years ago were invalid. Congress never ratified the treaties, as required by the Nonintercourse Act of 1790, which mandated congressional approval of Indian land transactions. The Justice Department, concurring with this argument, said that it would take Maine landowners, including the state itself, to court on behalf of the tribes unless a congressionally approved settlement was reached by June 1. President Jimmy Carter plans to appoint a mediator to try to negotiate an agreement...
...while, most Maine residents regarded the Indians' case as a trifle. But it began to seem a lot less trifling last October, when lawyers refused to certify some local bond issues because title to land in the localities involved was clouded by the Indian suit. The bonds are selling again, but some hostility persists in what some Down Easters describe as a "whiteneck" backlash. Says Maine's popular Republican Congressman William Cohen, who is anxious to run soon for either Senator or Governor: "It's not politically feasible to be liberal on this issue. The notion that...
Assistant Attorney General Peter Taft, who drafted Justice's brief, hopes that Congress will decide on a one-shot cash and land settlement of the Indian claim; the Government would presumably provide the bulk of the cash, as it did in the $1 billion Alaska native claims settlement of 1971. If there is no settlement by June 1, the Justice Department would start filing suits-most likely against paper companies with large landholdings. The outcome-in either legislation or litigation-could set the pattern for the settlement of similar yet smaller Indian land claims in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut...