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...Little Indians. Last week Colombia's National Ethnological Institute had new hope of getting to know the Motilones. A nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...
Squirrel Chowder. If the astronomers had been simply seeking to put the center in a particularly American rural setting, they could hardly have chosen better. The low, hickory-wooded hills around the town were once the home of Winnebago and Pottawatomi Indians. The region's first settler was Thaddeus Morehouse, who opened a tavern to sell venison and whisky (at 25? a gallon...
Dealing with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its fight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress...
Dealing with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its flight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress...
...mountain man, unlike the prospector, cattleman, or frontier settler, left no successor . . . But in his few allotted years the trapper set his impress forever upon the map of North America and the fate of the United States." On his first hand retracing of the cold trails of long-dead trappers, Author Cleland packs along...