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...success of the Espys and other middle-class blacks is a fragile thing. Welfare payments are the largest source of income in rural areas, greater than King Cotton. The Third World poverty in towns like Tunica (23.5% unemployment) and Jonestown (pop. 1,400, of whom 1,300 are black) is a reminder that civil rights laws alone cannot guarantee opportunity...
...Lillie Rayborn, 43, is already damp with sweat, trying to keep up with her rambunctious first-graders at Tunica's Rosa Fort Elementary School. "All right," she says firmly. "Yesterday we learned the letter l. Today we will learn the letter d." She hands out construction paper "bones." If the word on the "bone" begins with d, the child gets to "feed the dog" -- a large construction-paper hound with a hole for a mouth. The kids love...
Brain says scientists could, for example, determine when the Tunicas converted to Catholicism by examining whether Indians from different time periods were buried in a Christian manner. He adds that archeologists could get a better idea of the Tunica's wealth if they knew where household goods were found: if artifacts in relatively good condition were found in trash pits rather than in homes, it would indicate the Indians were wealthy at that time...
...only Charrier's desire for money, but also his hope for some positive public recognition. Most of the media coverage of the case has portrayed Charrier in a negative light. Brain says, adding that he him self has generally avoided mentioning Charrier in his scientific publications on the Tunica became of the lawsuit...
...Charrier's experiences with the Tunica treasure have not discouraged him from searching for other artifacts. Currently, the trader is investigating several paddle wheelers that sunk in the 1800s and are now in dry channels. During a recent telephone interview Charrier remarked. "I'm just polishing up one of my current discoveries right...