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Article: American Indian Leaders Share Visions at New York Forum.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- December 7, 2001
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By Jim Adams, Indian Country Today, Rapid City, S.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 7--ITHACA, N.Y.-Leaders from across Indian country gathered at Cornell University to leave advice for their descendants in the new millennium. By the time they finished, they had told a remarkable story of their own generation.
More than 30 speakers at the late November weekend forum told their own life stories, often with great emotion, presenting a collective biography of 30 years of enormous change and revitalization.
Their stories illuminated the grass-roots movement that preceded the occupation of Alcatraz Island in1970. They showed the deep ...