Word: indianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the remains for about 40 years, immediately announced he was the owner of most of them. Thereupon the chairman of Stanford's anthropology department, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., had the locks changed on the collection. The wrangle grew wider as scientists contemplated the loss of the bones, some...
...Even Indian tribes are raking in money by conducting legal gambling. Congress last fall passed a law making it easier for Indians on reservations to institute any type of gambling that is legal in the states where the % reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff...
...shore temple town of Mahabalipuram, the Tamil farmers spread their harvest across the road and wait for the traffic. Cars, buses and trucks burst through the sheaves; the rubber meets the rice, and the grains are pinched free from their husks. The vehicles move on, and women, children and Indian crows drop down through the exhaust fumes to gather in their share...
...they did. Six of them looked further, back into Mr. Keating's years at Helton, and discovered the Dead Poet's Society, a group of boys who went late at night to the old Indian cave in the woods and read poetry aloud to each other...
Taken with the romance of the idea, Mr. Keatings' students decided to make their own foray to the Indian cave. They read poetry, sang, danced, smoked pot, told ghost stories and knew that they were no longer conforming...