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Funds for Indian programs will likely be no more than $2.3 billion for the coming year, $353 million less than 1983 and $500 million less than 1982. Even the ugly alternatives for economic gains--large scale mining and exploitation of gas and oil reserves held on tribal lands--are becoming less and less reliable as world energy prices drop...
Against this background a letter came East last month from Porcupine, South Dakota--from a bitter Lakota Indian. Russell Means. Means is running for president of his tribal council with a slate of candidates representing a program known as TREATY--an acronym for the True Revolution for Elders. Ancestors, Treaties and Youth His platform is utterly revolutionary--complete and immediate severance of relations with the United States...
THIS CATCH-22 situation has to be in Russell Means's mind as he tries to get elected president of the Oglala Sioux tribal council. While he watches the young move out to the cities and the old die off or die in the bottle, he knows that answers to all his problems could be right at his feet in the form of uranium and other valuable minerals...
...lasts 2½ hours. MacDermot's plain, open-faced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel singing, is ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated. Just as MacDermot's 1967 Hair resonated in the era of tribal-love rock, so does The Human Comedy take wing on today's prevailing conservative winds. With some reworking, it could even soar...
...perhaps the most disturbing trend in Africa's postcolonial experience has been the continuation of tribal conflicts that have bedeviled the best-intentioned efforts at nation building. Kenya's Moi, a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe, calls modern Africa's tribal strife "the cancer that threatens to eat out the very fabric of our nation." From the beginning of the postcolonial period...