Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal negotiated by Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, the tribe has agreed to drop its claims to Tacoma in exchange for 900 acres of land and a trust fund that could generate as much as $10,000 annually for every adult, plus $61 million for a salmon fishery and a marine terminal. Each adult will also receive a $20,000 cash grant. Says Frank Wright, a Puyallup administrator: "Now we have something that is ours, something we can grab...
...Governor and Senator routinely cost $10 million or more per candidate. Neither presidential contender can afford to spend that much in a single state, even the nation's biggest. Dukakis and Bush are both counting on "free media." That is, they hope to stage enough colorful events to land regularly on the nightly TV news and thus get their message across to a state that is a must-win -- and a toss-up -- for both...
Historically, Erdrich is writing about a time when her maternal forebears were losing what little land they had left. Nanapush sees his clansmen tempted out of their holdings with quick-cash offers. He remains an eloquent holdout. "Land is the only thing that lasts life to life," he warns. "Money burns like tinder, flows off like water. And as for government promises, the wind is steadier...
...connections of land to culture and psychology are heavily illustrated with dramatic events and strong imagery. To leave no doubt that Fleur is an avenging witch, Erdrich poses her in front of a boiling vat of animal skulls. A tornado lifts a herd of cattle into the air, where they resemble giant birds, "dropping dung, their mouths opened in stunned bellows." A moose is tracked, killed and butchered in a snowy wood. The warm meat is then molded to the hunter's body, where it freezes to resemble marbled blue armor...
...living in Taiwan. He likes hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...