Word: mescalero
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...enduring taste for internationally-tinged music. Rather than take up the sitar, though, Strummer founded The Clash, the greatest punk band to ever rule the earth. Because all good things must come to an end, The Clash broke up, but Strummer returned a few years ago with the Mescaleros, a band that allowed him to stretch his world music muscles a little more. So the thing about falling in love with a Strummer album is that it reminds you exactly how hot The Clash were, provoking repeated relistens of London Calling (one of the greatest albums of all time...
...Silas Cochise, a relative of the famed 19th century Apache chief Cochise and the manager of a project designed to bring at least 20,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear power plant waste to the land of the Mescalero Apaches in return for up to $250 million in benefits over up to 40 years, quoted in the Boston Globe...
...land but on issues of land use, of rights to minerals and water, of fishing and hunting rights, of tribal sovereignty. Some involve prickly political questions that stem from the unique legal status that is supposed to exempt Indians from control or taxation by state and local governments. The Mescalero Apaches of New Mexico have won their claim to immunity from ordinary state licensing procedures in the sale of liquor on their reservations. In Minnesota, the Chippewas (one of whose honorary chiefs is Vice President Walter Mondale) have won the right to issue tribal auto license plates...
Died. Robert Geronimo, 77, Apache Warrior Geronimo's last surviving son, who was born after his dread dad's surrender to the U.S. Army (ending decades of terrorizing the Southwest), lived with his mother, Kate Cross-Eyes, on the Mescalero, N. Mex., Indian reservation, where he was a farmer and an occasional adviser on Apache movies; of pneumonia; in Mescalero...
Geronimom. In Mescalero, N. Mex., Virginia Klinekole became the first woman president of a tribal council of the Apaches...