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Durrett, Lansing and Sockbeson are all Native Americans--from the Lakota, Navajo and Penobscot Nations respectively...
...dumping such plans on voters' doorsteps is often preferable to the alternative. The Navajo nation showed great restraint in rejecting its leaders' proposals to build as many as five casinos on its territory. And then there was Castlewood, Va., whose residents decided to disband the town ? and give themselves a refund. "The town should never been formed in the first place and we don't want it," said Mayor Roy Castle. "It was double taxation without representation." The people have spoken...
...Friends said, 'Don't let Jane get married, or she'll maybe even, you know, have a baby.'" Perry, who is white, was reared in Tonawanda, in upstate New York, in what is still to some extent Seneca country. Making Whitefield a cross-cultural Seneca (novelist Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop Jim Chee, for instance, seems more thoroughly Indian) gave Perry an opportunity to learn more about the local Native American culture. And making her a woman "let me see whether I could write about 51% of the population." He has nearly finished another Whitefield novel, he says...
...which 300,000 people saw during the course of its run, Duchamp in particular benefited, on the basis of a single picture: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. It became the star freak of the show--its bearded lady, its dog-faced boy. People compared it to a Navajo rug, a cyclone in a shingle factory, an earthquake in the subway. A dull brown painting in a Cubist idiom, its overlapping planes were partly derived from the motion-analysis photos of Etienne-Jules Marey. Its very title was ironic, almost insupportable. Nudes, in art, were not supposed to move...
...Navajo doctoral candidate Manley A. Begay Jr., Harvard helps the Native American world build economic and political self-sufficiency...