Word: tineta
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Everything connected with the white man is bad for the Indian," Kahn-Tineta Horn-a member of the Caughnawaga reservation in Quebec-said last night at Harvard...
...want as little integration with white people as possible," Kahn-Tineta added. "We must keep to our reservations and develop them to remedy the damage done by the white man's intrusion...
...Kahn-Tineta, of the Caughnawaga reservation in Quebec is attempting to raise money to maintain a staff of lawyers "to fight the attempt of the Canadian Minister of Indian Affairs to suspend Canadian-Indian treaties," according to Russell L. Barsh '71 of the Harvard Intertribal Council...
During recent months, Kahn-Tineta has travelled 11,000 miles on a fund-raising tour. She has visited Alcatraz Indian Island, spoken on many reserves, and addressed Indian groups across the United States. She frequently confers with Iroquois ironworkers who construct skyscrapers in the U.S. but live on her reserve in Canada...
...Kahn-Tineta has said that she is "fighting in Canada against the government's policy of termination of all indian land ownership and treaty rights, and in the United States against discouragement and despair on the part of many Indians living in cities...