Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman middle initial originally stood for nothing. Recently an honorary one was provided by Washington State's Swinomish Indian tribe and formally accepted by the former President (TIME...
...between Navajo Indians and Delhi-Taylor Co. For a 50-50 split on profits, Delhi-Taylor gets all oil, gas and helium rights to 5,000,000 acres of Navajo land in the uranium-rich "Four Corners" area where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Tribe retains all other mineral rights, including uranium, is also dickering with other companies to lease additional land...
...cases such as this), but Charlie continued to improve. Paralysis disappeared. His appetite returned. Charlie seemed convinced he was going to make it. Still weak, he will have to remain in the hospital for a month to regain his strength. Then he will be returned to his tribe, perhaps fortified sufficiently to resist the further machinations of his mother-in-law. Said Charlie gratefully: "White man, him very clever. White man magic better than black fella magic...
...evenings dropped in on commoner friends without ceremony. He toured frontier villages, listened with tears in his eyes to refugees' stories, told them that his palace was always open to them. His gestures were sometimes generous but misguided. He presented a royal tract to a Bedouin tribe, only to discover the land was already occupied by several hundred Palestinian refugees. What ideas he had were more grandiose than practical. He wanted Jordan, which has not enough money to build its own roads, to equip itself with a first-class jet air force. Once he turned to senior officers...
...Senate voted to buy 7,000 acres of Indian reservation land for the Yellowtail Dam in the Bighorn River reclamation power project from the Crow Indian Tribe for $5,000,000. although the Federal Bureau of Reclamation had estimated that the land's actual market value is only...