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...Wamponoags' tribal status lies a more serious moral question. Is it possible for a group of people unconsciously conditioned by their own cultural and racial assumptions to judge objectively an alien racial and cultural group? Do they have the right to sit in judgment at all? Ellsworth Oakley, tribal chief of the Mashpee Wamponoags, posed this very question: "How can a white jury decide for us? We know who we are." The sessions of the trial consistently revealed the difficulty of cross-cultural evaluation. At one point during the proceedings, James D. St. Clair, chief counsel for the town...
Ellsworth Oakley, supreme sachem of the Mashpees, said Saturday, "How can a white majority decide on whether we are a tribe? We know...
Ellsworth Oakley, a member of the Mashpee tribe, said yesterday. "This is nothing but a technicality. I think it's a lot of crap that we have to prove that we're a tribe...
...roughest winter that anyone can remember since nineteen-and-eighteen," observed Newspaper Editor Mary Ann Oakley in Providence, Ky., a coal-mining town (pop. 4,270) numbed by temperatures down to -20°. As ice and snow made the winding roads impassable, the children have been able to attend school only three days this month. When the town's water supply was blocked by a frozen valve, the National Guard trucked in water to the fire station, where residents lined up with jugs for their 2-gal. rations. In their mutual need, the townspeople found a new spirit...
...blame us, we tried hard. No criteria for inclusion are offered. Why Calamity Jane and not Annie Oakley? Why Lucille Ball but not Bette Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about and talked about women of the present day--Jackie Onassis--not even mentioned once? Perhaps to make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell...