Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial in a Swiss federal criminal court last week, wearing a faded orange-pink robe and sandals, was a slender Indian who called himself Swami Omkarananda, a self-proclaimed teacher of mankind and head guru of a "Hindu-Christian" sect known as the Divine Light Center. The charges against the 49-year-old swami and what the prosecution called the hard core of his 80 followers ranged from theft and trespassing to attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. But most serious of all, the cultists had disturbed the peace of Winterthur...
...Marlon Brando, safely returned from the planet Krypton after all, and unexpectedly bewhiskered. Brando, appearing in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Push for Excellence" rally, did not mention the new growth. He delivered a rambling homily about the American Indian, his favorite cause, and suggested that "sometimes, just staying alive is a push for excellence." Explained a Brando aide about his newly hirsute boss: "He's gotten lazy...
...agencies implement this policy in whichever ways they are most capable. The Interior Department is no exception; orders from DOE are faithfully filled by the Interior Department is no exception; orders from DOE are faithfully filled by the Interior Department and its fully-owned subsidiary, the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA recently released the San Juan Basin Regional Uranium Study, which outlines plans for ten uranium mills and 100 uranium mines for the Four Corners area in the Southwest by the year...
Recent experience has furnished no exception to this policy. In the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Carter has reaffirmed his commitment to nuclear energy. With over 55 per cent of domestic uranium reserves and over one-third of all western low-sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy...
...hundred years after the "Oklahoma Oil Rush," the cast remains the same: Indian people, the energy corporations, and the energy demands of a growing America. The only difference is that, 100 years later, Indian people have retained only 4 per cent of their original land base, while the energy corporations have become the largest corporations in the world...