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...building and testing of the first atom bomb is one of the century's great stories. So it takes a bit of nerve to turn this modern Promethean tale into a popular thriller, especially if the hero is a Pueblo Indian Army sergeant who is also a prizefighter, jazz pianist and catnip to the ladies...
...Jackie Gutierrez, 8, of the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico, bilingual learning has meant sitting in a twice-a-week class listening and responding to Leon Baca, a teacher of the ancient Tewa language. During a recent session, Baca grunted, "Nyaemangeri!" The students replied, "Left side!" "Haa (yes)," intoned Baca; then "Ko'ringeri!" The children shouted, "Right side!" Asked later what the enrichment class was all about, Jackie replied, "We're learning to speak Indian...
This sense of proportion is the dominant theme in Coles' manuscript, a rambling and anecdotal account of Coles' interviews, through which he homes in on his belief that, as with many other issues, class separates children on the nuclear question. Coles talks of his discussions with poor Pueblo children in New Mexico, who evince more skepticism for the "Anglo World" than interest in nuclear weapons. He talks of Black children he knows in Roxbury, who mention not nightmares of nuclear blasts, but of "dope and coke and smack and needles and syringes and booze, bottles and bottles of booze...
...This pueblo has a resident population of about 3,300, and it controls about 67,000 acres. If it has its way, it will eventually control about 277,000 acres. Through the property runs the Rio Grande and Interstate 25. The Indians sold the right of way for the highway for $1.4 million. When they are not negotiating rights of way for roads, railroads, power lines, phone lines and gas lines, they can be found in Santa Fe or Albuquerque selling their jewelry or their property or Navajo blankets they have traded for. They also farm and tend cattle...
...making no public comment; in fact, its editor, Larry Sanders, actually said, "No comment." The paper's lawyers have collected over 100 photographs of the Santo Domingo, the preponderance of them from the Museum of New Mexico, in an attempt to show that picture taking at the pueblo is nothing new and that the suit should be dismissed. Borg argues that the tribe has authorized photographs on only two occasions and that the rest were taken back in the days when "the Pueblo were fearful of Indian agents; they acquiesced to the Bureau of Indian Affairs." The dollar figure...