Word: tetons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ahbleza's will parallel Tonweya's Despite the fact that Ahbleza is several years older, the two boys become 'brother-friends', and like their fathers, both are marked for distinction. Tonweya becomes a great scout while Ahbleza strives to become leader of the Mahto band, and, eventually, the entire Teton (Sioux) Nation...
...strives to fulfill. Even the story line is old: the coming of the white man portends ill; the heroes devote themselves to preserving the old Mahto ways. Nor is the book's message a new one. Ahbleza's last prophecy for his people, the Mahto band of the Teton Nation, is to recognize there are good white men as well as bad white men. Ruth Beebe Hill echoes this statement: there were good Indians as well as bad Indians...
...mechanical engineer, not a social engineer," he says in his guise as realist. "I was an English major at Bates. The nearest I came to formal science was a minor in geology. That's all right. The Teton Dam and the Hartford Civic Center were both designed by engineers. The state of Maine's made up of tinkerers -they'll tackle anything-and maybe that's what the world needs...
...religious faith of its surviving victims. It dramatizes the inadequacy of the nation's safety program for dams-federal, state and private. Congress passed a Dam Inspection Act in 1972, but it was not properly funded, nor has it been properly enforced-even after Idaho's Teton Dam collapsed last year, killing eleven and causing $400 million worth of damage. Part of the problem: the law authorized enough money for the Army's Corps of Engineers to make an inventory but not a detailed safety inspection of the nation's 49,500 dams. The inventory, costing...
...this month. But it is up to Congress, not the Executive Branch, to provide the money to confront the problem adequately. With another disaster to spur his colleagues to action, Idaho's Senator James McClure plans to resubmit two dam-safety bills that were introduced, unsuccessfully, after the Teton Dam collapse. Said McClure's home-state Senate partner Frank Church: "We have got to move urgently to watch over these dams, rebuild them if necessary, but make sure that they are safe...