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...collaboration is desirable, nonetheless, Cajete said, because society needs to "empower tribal leaders to look at education in a different...
...LANDOW, Democratic moneyman and AL GORE adviser. Early this year he allegedly threatened to blackball the impoverished Oklahoma tribes with the Clinton Administration if they didn't hire him to help try to reclaim some 7,500 acres of land that was under the control of the Agriculture Department. Tribal representatives met with Landow after ponying up $107,000 to the Democrats in 1996 for a chance to make their plea to Clinton, but they saw no action on their land. Landow wanted 10% of any oil and gas revenues from the land in return for his help, and tribal...
...moved from village to village, smoking opium with tribal chieftains, then returned home and began boiling pots of water and herbs in his kitchen. He tried one herb combination after another, going cold turkey while seeking a remedy. His withdrawal symptoms were "like torture," he recalls, and time after time he went back to his opium pipe for relief...
...American property into individual family plots through allotment, pressing the Anglo ideal of the homestead on a people who had developed a high level of communal cooperation. Not until 1934, with the Wheeler-Howard Act, did the American government again recognize any right of the Native Americans to any tribal identity or land holdings. Roughly a century after the original devastating program for "Americanizing" the Native Americans, the same ugly scenario is being played out in California: a Native American attempt at self-sufficiency is held up by a state government bent on meddling with success...
...examining the healing practices of Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Chinese and tribal traditions, the class will examine how people understand the meaning and end of human life, the experience of suffering and the role of the healer; the class will question whether medicine or religion is the social guardian or morality...