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...Court. While younger Navajos staged a revolt, picketing the council and poking fun at Annie Wauneka, Mitchell's office backed up its embattled attorney and went to court to fight the ouster order. Ten dissident Indians joined the suit, and the tribal council was left in an untenable position no matter who won. Since 1924, when Congress decided that American Indians are U.S. citizens, Navajos and other Indians have been both tribal citizens and Americans. Now their rights as members of each group had been thrust into conflict. To oust Mitchell would leave legal aid agencies powerless to help...
...local OEO Chief Ted Mitchell, 32, laughed sardonically. To Mrs. Wauneka, Mitchell's laugh was an insult. The next time she saw him, she snapped: "You ready to laugh some more?" Then she smacked the Harvard Law School graduate several times across the face. The following day, two Navajo policemen, acting on council orders, packed Mitchell into his pickup truck and hustled him off the reservation...
Consider New York Mayor John Lindsay's reply to the students of Rough Rock School on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The youngsters had written a letter offering to take Manhattan Island off his hands for $24 worth of trinkets and beads. Replied His Honor, with equal seriousness: "Your offer falls far short of the current value of Manhattan Island-which has become the East Coast's answer to your own Monument Valley. Our unanimous judgment is that because of the enormous growth in building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern...
...floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes a far less interesting shape." Alas, when Byars first staged the event last week, he waited in the cockpit of the airplane, clad only in a Navajo hat, a red loincloth and black socks carefully held up by red silk garters. About 50 people came to join him, but all remained fully clothed. Manhattan may be ready for psychosculpture, but not, it seems, for psychosculpture...
...Down Under. Littlefield and his colleagues never undertake a project unless Utah is certain of a customer as well as a supply. Much of the Navajo coal, for instance, will be sold to large Western utilities. They will operate two steam plants near the mine to generate 1,510,000 kilowatts of electricity for six states. The company's newest thrust upward, however, is Down Under, where Utah and two partners will soon be shipping 4,500,000 tons of iron ore a year from the Mount Goldsworthy mine in western Australia. Utah is also developing six deposits...