Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ownership of current printing equipment...
...Indians are not alone when, after assuming ownership status, they "have had to sell their land to pay taxes." The god of the whites has not granted his worshipers respite from similar demands. Rights and privileges in our society bring responsibilities and liabilities...
...most dramatic controversy over native lands is one now raging over the ownership of 90% of the acreage of Alaska. Aided by some of the nation's best lawyers, including former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 55,000 Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts contend that they hold title to the Alaskan land because the U.S. did not purchase it from Russia in 1867; it bought only the right to tax and govern the territory. When Alaska became a state in 1959, the state began to assert claim to the area. It has seized...
...they have seen the devastating impact of closed-down reservations. The Menominees of Wisconsin had good schools and community services, plus a sawmill owned by the tribe, when they were "terminated" in 1961. Since then, many Menominees have had to sell their lands to pay taxes in their new ownership status. The Indian hospital shut down and sawmill profits dwindled. As a result, the state paid out more than six times as much money in welfare to the Menominees as before?and the Menominees lost their identity. "The Menominee tribe is dead," reports Professor Gary Orfield in a study...
...focusing the energies of the nation on the need to remedy its physical ills, an undesirable byproduct of its growth and affluence, the President referred to the problems of the nation's blacks only fleetingly in endorsing "equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership." There was no mention of racial tension-a curious omission in describing the State of the Union in 1970. No one could quarrel with the President's desire to combat crime, but blacks-though they themselves suffer more from crime than anyone else-could hardly welcome the President...