Brownwood Bulletin from Brownwood, Texas • Page 7

Indians Ready Peace Pipe Repeal Bill Due Senate Action r. to put if into op-' the dioctaw Tribe or XaHon ho slid a telephone is one of the so-called Five interview Tuesday. "You can Tribes of Oklahoma, remove me as chief before I'll The others are the Chicasaws do it. I told them 1 didn't in-xwho used to be one tribe with Wed, Aug. 19, 1970 8ROWNWOOD BULLETIN 7 Chprokees, the Crooks and the i state senator and reprosenfa- Sr-mmoles.

They have been tive besides being a county called the F'ive Civilized Tribes By GODFREY ANDERSON Associated Press Writer DALLAS, Tex. CAP) Choctaw Indians, after 11 years with a tomahawk hanging over their heads, prepared to smoke a pipe with Washington today. The Senate was believed ready to approve a measure repealing a 1959 act that threatened the tribe with extinction, when President Nixon puts his signature to the legislation, their long cliffhanger will have ended. But the repeal pushed perilously near the dsadline that. Congress h-ad set.

Repeated delays in bringing the termination act into effect were finally to expire next Tuesday. From thit day choctaws would no longer have been Indians so far as the federal government was concerned, They tend to let them kill the Choc-the Choctaws some time before law Nation. No Christopher Columbus). the Chief Belvin. a dynamic little perintendent of schools in Oklahoma.

He estimates the present strength of the Choctaw Nation man of 69. has served as! as "at leasl 85.000." would have lost special edu-, I ucational opportunities, health, housing and other benefits wilhl which the nation's 26,1 other In-j dian tribes and bands are favor- ed. I It added up lo a gloomy prospect, and it didn't help" much i that, in a sense, the Choctaws; had asked for it. It was back in the 1950s that', the Choctaws. who mostly live across the Red River from Texi as in Southeast Oklahoma, ed thinking about self-rule.

They i decided they would like to choose their own chiefs, handle tribal business and assets without supervision from what they considered to be the too paternalistic Bureau of Indian Affairs. So they drew up a measure and sent" it off lo Washington. The way the Choctaws tell it, they were then sold down the river. What they proposed got changed somewhere along the legislative way and the Congress passed the termination Act of 1959. It gave the Choctaws what 'Sesame Street 7 Scene of Parade HOUSTON (AP) The Main Street of Houston will become "Sesame Street" for a Thanksgiving Day parade.

City counciimen approved the one-day name change because the parade will include members of the Sesame Street television series cast. Sesame Street is a national education program for children. (hey asked, but it. look away much besides. Robert Beames.

director of the Dallas Field Employment Assistance Office for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who is half Choctaw himself, s-iid that, as interpreted, the proposed legislation would have "terminated individual rights and benefits of all Choctaws as Indians, This was not the intent of the bill when it, was passed." Chief J.W. "Jimmy" Belvin, of Durant, who has headed the Choctaw Nation since then President Harry- S. Truman appointed him after a tribal referendum in 1948, backed the original self-rule measure but switched round when he saw how it turned out. "When they came back with their revised act and 1 saw it would harm the individual Choc- Our lower-than-usual prices chase away the back-to-school blues OPEN THURS. NK HT TILL 9:00 CLOSE-OUT! SPORT SHIRTS Short sleeve sport shirts for men In lots of styles.

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