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...landed." Western movies and television, of course, still portray the Indian as the savage marauder. "How are you going to expect the Indian to feel a part of America when every television program shows him to be a brute or a stupid animal?" asks Ray Fadden, owner of a Mohawk museum in northern New York. On an Apache reservation, even an Indian girl was caught up in the TV drama. As an Indian actor crept up on an unsuspecting cowboy, the girl involuntarily shouted at the cowboy...
...century was Robert Bennett, ap pointed by President Johnson in 1966 and admired by most moderate Indian leaders. An Oneida from Wisconsin and a career BIA man, Bennett resigned in dismay last July, charging that "the new Administration has completely ignored the Indians." His successor is Louis Bruce, part Mohawk and part Oglala Sioux, who seems just as frustrated as his people in dealing with the Great White Father. "I keep hearing terrible and sad things that are happening that I didn't know about." One trouble with the bureau, claims one of its most effective field men, is that...
...restless and long to return to their reservation families for spiritual renewal. Many do so, abruptly abandoning jobs. It is the lure of the land, most often, that proves irresistible. "They used to tell me that the land is like your mother," explains Tom Cook, a 21-year-old Mohawk. "The trees are your brothers, as are the birds in the air and the fish in the water. They give you life; they give you food; they give you everything. It was so pretty the way my grandmother used to tell it." Cook attends college in New York City...
...they are on Alcatraz to stay. Announcing that they considered their invasion a success, the occupiers and 183 visitors, including Eskimos, Mexican Aztecs and a representative sampling of American tribesmen, gathered to make plans for governing the newly seized territory. Meeting under the leadership of Richard Oakes, 27, a Mohawk who attends San Francisco State College, they discussed, among other things, the legality of their occupation and a center for native American studies that they intend to establish on the island. The Indians are willing to buy Alcatraz from the U.S. Their offer: "$24 in glass beads and red cloth...
Champagne flowed and cigars smouldered aboard the Mohawk charter from Ithaca late Saturday as a jubilant Harvard track team celebrated a stunning Heptagonal triumph over favored Army, 55 1/2-51...