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Wednesday, October 20, 1971
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Indians tell Senate that government did not protect their rights B
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) _ Indians
told a Senate subcommittee Tues
day they’ve been robbed of land
and water rights while their sup
posed guardian, the federal gov
ernment, didn’t protect them and
many times helped the encroach-
ers.
They testified at the opening
of a Senate Judiciary subcom
mittee inquiry into what Sen.
Oceanography
receives grant
to study Gulf
A&M’s Oceanography Depart
ment has been awarded a $29,780
grant for geophysical studies
along the continental shelf of the
Gulf of Mexico, announced Cong.
Olin E. Teague.
The funds were provided by the
U. S. Geological Survey of the
Department of the Interior.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, Ocean
ography Department head, said
the grant provides continued sup
port for a project which could
lead to better understanding of
the gulf’s geologic history, includ
ing its formation.
TTI is awarded
$200,000 contract
A&M’s Texas Transportation
Institute has been awarded a
$200,000 contract to develop a
better highway pavement marking
technique for nationwide use.
TTI Director Jack Keese said
the three-year research project is
supported by the National Coop
erative Highway Research Pro
gram administered by the High
way Research Board.
Keese noted conventional high
way markings, whether painted or
bonded to the pavement surfaces,
perform well under dry conditions,
but their reflective qualities de
teriorate sharply on wet nights—
when most needed. Raised mark
ers solve the rain problem, but
they are often destroyed by snow
plows. • .at»' iu noui}.
TTI wilP attempt'tfy dtevfel6p“a
marking system effective on pave
ments covered by a quarter-inch
of water and practical under high
speed snow-plowing conditions
with steel blades in contact with
the road surface.
Keese said possibilities include
design of markers which can be
easily and economically replaced
if destroyed by snow plows or
which yield to the scraping ac
tion and restore themselves to
their original condition.
Another approach involves
light-emitting markers mounted
flush with the pavement, using
electrical or radioactive light
sources.
Co-principal investigators for
the project are Dr. W. M. Moore,
associate research engineer, and
Gilbert Swift, research instrumen
tation engineer.
A&M Wheelmen
reschedule ride
The A&M Wheelman, the uni
versity’s first organization of bi
cyclists, has rescheduled its rain-
ed-out ride to Texas World Speed
way for Saturday.
Wheelman president Andre Pi
azza of Houston said Texas World
Speedway, formerly Texas Inter
national Speedway, is about eight
miles south of College Station
on Highway 6.
The ride will start at 9 a.m. in
front of G. Rollie White Coliseum
and will not conflict with the
A&M-Baylor football game, he
promised.
Piazza said the excursion is
open to everyone, although chil
dren under 12 should be accom
panied by parents. Multi-speed
bikes in good condition are rec
ommended.
He suggested riders bring wa
ter and candy or other snacks.
The group is expected to return
to College Station by noon.
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Edward F. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
called “the federal government’s
flagrant abdication of its trust
responsibilities to the Indian peo
ple.”
“The taking of Indian land and
water and the infringement of
Indian rights did not end in the
last century,” Kennedy, the sub
committee chairman, said in an
opening statement.
“The lawlessness and immorali
ty perpetuated by the government
continues right now and it will
continue tomorrow unless the
United States does more than pay
lip service to its sacred treaty
obligations to Indian tribes.”
Kennedy said the Northern
Paiutes see Pyramid Lake shrink
ing, the Agua Calientes see
ground water disappearing, the
Navajos see their clean air cloud
ing, and the lower-Colorado River
tribes see their reservations
shrinking.
“And all the while the Indians’
trustee, advocate and protector—
the U.S. government—stands idly,
if not menacingly, by,” Kennedy
said.
Angelo Butterfield, a Lumni
Indian from Idaho, said that dur
ing World War II “the Army
came out to our reservation and
told the leaders it was their pa
triotic duty to allow them to
build an air base right within the
reservation, without going to Con
gress for permission.”
The chiefs trusted the military
men’s promises that their prop
erty would be returned even more
valuable than before, she said.
“Our leaders were deceived,”
she said. “At the end of the war,
the two communities on the edge
of the reservation came to Con
gress to fight over who’d get the
Indian lands. The city of Poca
tello got it for $1.”
Mel Tonasket, chairman of the
Coleville Tribal Council in Wash
ington state, said a few years
ago a dam was built blocking a
river running across the.reserva
tion.
“The Bureau of Indian Affairs
superintendent told the Army
Corps of Engineers that salmon
wasn’t very important so there
was no sense in putting in ‘lad
ders’,” Tonasket said.
He referred to a canal of steps
built around a dam to enable sal
mon to move upstream to
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amid Lake outside Reno, Net]
The lake depends on repj
ment from the Truckee Rij
was dammed in 1905 by the
lamation Bureau, diverting t
than half of the river’s flow a |
from the lake. The lake’s],
has shrunk 70 feet destroying
tribe’s main livelihood, a fist
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