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...recent atomic bomb tests to discuss mining and farming in Nevada, which most Britons knew only for Reno and gambling. For an Easter story this year, Cooke is assuming that England knows about Manhattan's Fifth Avenue parade, plans to tell about the Easter rituals of the Ute and Yaqui Indians...
...Colorado Ute Indians (pop. 3,000) are not exactly hostile to the Government of the U.S.: they accept it as stolidly as Chicago accepted the Capone gang. But since 1868, when the U.S. signed a treaty guaranteeing them a 15 million acre reservation in western Colorado, they have put little faith in the Great White Father in Washington. They have reasons: after the Indians agreed to drop other claims in return for the land, the white man grabbed the reservation back and herded most of the tribesmen into an arid corner of Utah...
Beer in the Belly. After a few minutes, a long-haired Ute ancient named John Powwinnee rose majestically, costumed in dark sunglasses, yellow shirt and dress pants. "We won't be able to decide until after the Bear Dance," he said. The audience shouted approvingly, "Hou! Hou!" Said another old man: "The land is worth more . . ." Then, after a pause, "Of course, I have some beer in my belly." The Indians retired to a grove of cottonwood trees to powwow. It was not until sundown, three days later, that the rest of the tribesmen outvoted...
Last week the court of claims awarded the Utes their record-breaking judgments -$31,700,000, or about $10,000 for every man, woman & child (though probably the tribe, and not its members, would get the money). Grunted a long-haired old Ute, still dissatisfied with the bargain: "It is better than buffalo soldiers,* but the Colorado land is richer than this money...
...wartime situation. W. P. D.'s top man is longheaded, ambassadorial George Veazey Strong. Like Sherman Miles, he has been as much an Army diplomat as a field soldier, is as much at home in Geneva as he is in Washington. Cavalryman to start, George Strong fought Ute Indians in the West, Moros in the Philippines, went to Tokyo in 1908 as military attache...