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...recent years, Standing Rock's former historic-preservation officer, Tim Mentz, reburied remains from 438 Indian graves that had been disturbed. As federal officials have tinkered with the water levels of the Missouri River, long-submerged Indian villages have resurfaced, luring robbers seeking to profit from a black market in bones and artifacts. "We are not archaeological specimens," says Mentz indignantly. Unfortunately his zeal went too far for some tribal officials. Mentz was fired last May. His offense: refusing to disinter hillside graves to make way for a road to the reservation casino...
...notes a seasoned member of the press gallery, "new ground is - being broken." This has included actual applause in response to speeches -- no longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
...Moolman Mentz, spokesperson for the Conservative Party, the largest parliamentary opposition, said approval of the Cape Town march was "a knife thrust in the back" of the security forces. Mentz called for immediate Parliamentary debate...
Crew A. C. M. 2.--Bow, Stearn; E. H. La Farge, Gates, Gall, Mentz, Trimble, Fox, stroke, Weymer...
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