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When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a...
Conference participants will attend workshops as well as lectures during the program. One workshop, led by Frank Ryan, a student at the Law School and a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, will focus on the economic development of the Indian tribes.
Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second...
Guilty Without Trial. Fortunately, this situation is bound to improve-all because of Madeline Colliflower, 46, a stubborn member of the Gros Ventre tribe (part of the Blackfoot nation) on Montana's Fort Belknap reservation. In 1963 the tribal court ordered Mrs. Colliflower to quit pasturing her cattle in...
* The storied seragli of Scheherazade and The Arabian Nights are gone. In Algeria's fabled city of Ouled Nail, source of the erotic danse du ventre that is known in a pallid version to the West as the belly dance, the Ouled Nail girls are taking to Coca-Cola...