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What were once the ancestral lands of Washington State's Puyallup Indians are now worth nearly $1 billion -- the estimated value of downtown real estate, port facilities and private homes in the city of Tacoma (pop. 160,000). The tribe's holdings, however, have been reduced to less than 100 acres, and unemployment among the 1,400 tribe members stands...
...deal negotiated by Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, the tribe has agreed to drop its claims to Tacoma in exchange for 900 acres of land and a trust fund that could generate as much as $10,000 annually for every adult, plus $61 million for a salmon fishery and a marine terminal. Each adult will also receive a $20,000 cash grant. Says Frank Wright, a Puyallup administrator: "Now we have something that is ours, something we can grab...
This time, Erdrich goes to the sources of her saga's bloodlines. Nanapush, a Chippewa elder born in 1862, begins with a stark account of an epidemic that devastated his people during the winter of 1912. "Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken," he laments. Pauline Puyat, born around the turn of the century, picks up the pace with a fanciful tale about one of the survivors, Fleur Pillager, a young girl | who grows to inhabit the book as the central symbol of endurance and revenge. Fleur...
...made a great deal of progress and I don't anticipate any problems," Tribe said...
...Although Tribe and the committee would not discuss their deliberations, Bok said that he would look for administrative ability in a candidate for the post, but not necessarily prior experience...