Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjournment convulsion the Congress sent 190 bills to Ford's desk, each of which required action. He vetoed the bill designed to get more Indians into the Bureau of Indian Affairs. No wonder: to make room for Indians, the bill offered to retire all non-Indians over the age of 50 at full pension, a precedent that would have caused turmoil in the civil service. Nonetheless, the veto will anger some Indians...
Firm Control. The trial is certain to attract wide attention-especially since the Indian government lifted all censorship restrictions on foreign correspondents a fortnight ago. No similar relaxation in the government's firm control over the domestic press has taken place. On the contrary, the right of dissent has virtually disappeared...
...will it soon reappear. Late this month Parliament will meet in special session to consider an elaborate revision of the Indian constitution. The effect of the proposed amendment bill-certain to be passed because of the ruling Congress Party's huge majorities in Parliament and the state legislatures-will be to enhance the already vast powers of the executive and to reduce those of the judiciary. The Supreme Court will lose its right to question legislation on any but procedural grounds...
...good things" are on MOMA's walls, in plenty, along with a number of revealing oddities. Who would have thought that George Catlin, that dependable journeyman who labored so hard to record the dying Indian tribes on his journeys across America in the 1840s, would produce landscape studies-a low band of earth, a luminous veil of sky-that look like Rothkos...
...Besides Indian-related courses, 214 other subjects are offered, some of which lead to Associate of Arts or Applied Science degrees. Twenty-two students from last year's graduating class have gone on from the two-year Navajo school to four-year colleges or universities. Edison Hatathli, 18, president of the student body, was a high school dropout. "When I came here, I was lost," he says. "Now I want to study art at Berkeley and then return to serve my people." Other students can get certificates in vocational studies that include auto mechanics, nursing and drafting...