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Time to Learn. Rough Rock was the first such beolta, and it won such enthusiastic support among the Navahos that Roessel and tribal leaders felt encouraged to try the next step. They got a $457,000 grant from OEO to start the community college in a borrowed building. They got $200,000 more from tribal funds, and $60,000 from the William H. Donner Foundation...
Indian Siege. When the Great White Father, in the guise of the Office of Economic Opportunity, opened a legal-services office on the reservation two years ago, the OEO lawyers handled such mi nor matters as land titles and grazing rights. But soon the lawyers were be sieged by Indians seeking a full range of legal advice. When that advice was given, it was other Indians who objected. To the tribal council, the Navajos' traditional rulers, the lawyers with their angry Indian clients were a forked-tongued threat...
...tribal advisory council meeting, 58-year-old Annie Wauneka, the council's first squaw, rose to ask if the 1968 Civil Rights Act forbade the tribe to banish unwanted whites from the reservation. When he heard her question, 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...
...intrinsically weak because they were contrived by the very power structure which they tried to confront. Moynihan recognizes this fact, although for theoretical reasons he does not emphasize it. The ability of the federal government to intervene in local politics is considerable, but it is not unlimited. When the OEO-sponsored community action groups began to make too much trouble for the city halls and the state houses, word quickly got back to Washington that it was time to start phasing out the community action groups. The power of these groups--like all "power" that is given rather than...
...Former OEO Chief Sargent Shriver tended to "oversell and underperform," particularly in handling the Job Corps and community action...