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Also envisioned are changes in so-called "grand apartheid," the long-range plan to divide South Africa into a constellation of ten "independent" tribal enclaves scattered across a surrounding white territory, which includes 84% of the country. Three such homelands (Transkei, BophuthuaTswana and Venda) have already received their nominal freedom. But the scheme has been roundly criticized because most of the new states are fragmented parcels with few resources. Botha and his advisers are now redrawing the boundaries of these mininations, so that they will be contiguous and better endowed economically. If the scheme is completed, the new nations would...
...this land is owned by the Navajo Nation, which exports electricity through high-voltage power lines to metropolitan centers of New Mexico, Arizona Nevada, Utah and southern California. "The annual output is enough to supply the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years," according to Navjo tribal chairman Peper MacDonald in 1975. Yet 85 of Navajo households have no electricity today...
...fatalistic, almost mythical perception of itself. It is easy to get caught up in the character of the people, their eloquence, their national pride." White, for his part, got caught up in the history and mythology of Mexico's pre-Columbian people. Thus, in homage to Quetzalcoatl, the tribal god of the Toltecs, and in commemoration of this week's cover, White named his newly acquired feline house pet Quetzalcatl...
...white jury ruled that although the state recognizes the Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, the Wampanoags were not a tribe on four key dates: in August 1976 when they filed the suit; in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim; and in 1869-70 when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...
...said yesterday, "the trial was going to be a futile act," because the U.S. Department of Interior will make the final decision regardless of whether its definition of a tribe differs from Skinner's. The department will base its decision on the findings of a panel of experts and tribal history archaeologists, Tureen added...