Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls might be alarming, but the body language was fine. That, at any rate, was the view of Psychologist-Author Ernst Beier (People-Reading), who diagnosed Jimmy Carter's debating style. "Swiveling shoulders and licking his lips," Carter has a definite edge over Gerald Ford, "the wooden Indian." It was one of the best things said about the swiveling Carter campaign all week...
...arrived found himself surrounded by ranchers, the local G.O.P. committeeman and the sheriff, who was wearing camouflage coveralls and carrying six arrows in his hip pocket-he was going deer hunting. Steve talked cattle and politics. Before he left, a tall man introduced himself: "I'm an Indian, and I hate to say it but I'm voting for Carter." That off his chest, he walked out. Later Steve said, "If we win, I'll be happy for my father. If we lose, I get my father back again. Either way, the family will be a winner...
...Navajo men and women are centuries old, but the octagonal sanctuary where the tribal ceremonies take place is spanking new. With its earth floor and eternal flame at the base of a six-story building, the sanctuary is the center of a $15 million campus designed by Indian medicine men and paid for largely by federal funds. Navajo Community College, which moved to its new 1,200-acre campus at Tsaile in northeastern Arizona three years ago, is the first entirely Indian-operated and -controlled institution for higher learning on a reservation in the U.S. Eighty-five percent...
Last Americans. The college began in a reservation high school in 1969, the year that Edward Kennedy, in a report by the Senate special subcommittee on Indian education, declared that the "first American" had become the "last American" in terms of employment and education. One-third of all adult Navajos neither wrote nor spoke English. Dropout rates were twice the national average, and because of the systematic denigration of their culture, Indian children, more than any other minority group, believed themselves to be below average in intelligence. Explains N.C.C. President Thomas Atcitty: "For too long we were told our culture...
...change all that, N.C.C. offers 23 courses in the Navajo language, history and culture. Students learn from Indian teachers how to shape clay without a wheel, sew moccasins with sheep sinews or shape baskets with sumac fibers. Andrew Natonabah is one of four medicine men who teach Navajo psychology, medicine, dances and tribal lore, and who often cure mentally disturbed students "by dancing them free of evil spirits." Says he: "When they leave here, our students understand more about their culture and are better prepared to meet the white man's world...