Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along with a voice on a loudspeaker intoning "June fifth, Sam Ervin, blue-gray suit, dark blue tie, pale blue shirt, gold watch...
When you look at Jim Sam, you don't know he is an American Indian. But he knows it, and he never forgets...
...Sam...
...Harvard by something of a fluke. A Yale-sponsored program called the Transitional Year, designed to channel minority students into Ivy League schools, contacted him when he was in high school. Sam has never been able to figure out how they got his name, but since they did--and, he jokes, since his high school principal advised him against it--he decided to make the big trip to the alien East, while most of his friends went off to find jobs or fight in Vietnam...
...Sam knows what lies ahead of him, what kinds of things he's going to work for. "First you have to do two things," he says, counting them out on two of his fingers. "One, you have to solve the problem of who has the power on the reservation, the Indian or the white man--and it seems to me to be the white man. And two, you have to stabilize the land base, the reservations...