Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the Native American Conference this Saturday, Harvard Ed School graduate and former president of the Wampanoag tribal council Russell Peters says that his tribe lost its land at Mashpee on Cape Cod when the Federal government refused to acknowledge it as a tribe...
...says he grew up in Mashpee when it was still an Indian community. "We took advantage of [the land]," Peters says. "We learned a lot of things about our culture, about our history. We had a lot of pride. I find it very difficult to accept the fact that we've lost this thing. It makes me feel very...
Witt echoes Jackson's thoughts about the need for Blacks to be more connected with Africa. "Jesse says that it's important to have that land mass connection and it in no way implies that you want to separate yourself when every other ethnic group does that. It just reaffirms our heritage...
Princeton Captain Bob Scrabis kept the Tigers close, shooting 6-for-12 from three-point land on his way to a game-high 26 points. Sophomore center Kit Mueller also chipped in 12 points and six rebounds while playing the entire 40 minutes, but Scrabis and Mueller were both plagued by poor shot selection...
...immediate aftermath of Apollo 8 was a land rush of follow-up flights. Said Thomas Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters. Yet the wonder of that lunar vista has remained a lure and an accomplishment, a sign that amid riot, war and discontent, something was still worth striving...