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...movement has also produced a variant sect of soft-core survivalists. They share the more moderate belief, long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold...
Ellsworth Oakley, supreme sachem of the Mashpees, said Saturday, "How can a white majority decide on whether we are a tribe? We know...
...dealings with the whites since the 17th century--a succession of doubtful sales and questionable boundaries--creates another basis for the suit. White men first appeared on the island almost 400 years ago; the first recorded Indian reaction to the whites was a statement signed in 1681 by the sachem, or tribal chief, forbidding Wampanoags to sell land to the whites...
Nevertheless, in 1687, the son of the old sachem sold Gay Head to the governor of New York for 30 pounds. In response to many Indians' protest, the General Court declared the original order was a fake, and produced an Indian who claimed to have forged it, a decision that received little respect from the Indians...
...only fair now that TIME turn its imagination loose and trip down the hierarchic stairs through the also-rans, and even into the never-weres. Our profession is in need of variety-not a grand sachem...