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Mondav. March 6,1978
University Daily Kansan
Indians protest bills with cross-country walk
By BOB BEF $ ^{D} $
Staff Writer
American Indians are walking coast-to-coast to protest allied anti-Indian legislation. Norbert Dupuis, a spokesman for the American Indian Movement, said
Organized by the American Indian Movement, the walk began at Alcatraz, Calif. Feb. 12 and will end in Washington, Dumais said.
THE WALK, entitled "The Longest Walk," was conceived by AIM to protest four bills that are currently in subcommittees in Congress, Dupuis said.
Two of the bills, submitted by Rep. Lloyd Meeds, D-Wash., would allow the federal government to set limits on the use of water for industrial use in Iowa and other crimes involving only members of a tribe.
Another bill sponsored by Rep. Jack Cunningham, R-Wash., would appeal all existing treaties between the federal government and the American Indians.
THE FOURTH BILL that AIM opposes is the Criminal Code Reform Act of 1977, which was introduced by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late Sen. John McClellan.
DARK. The bill increases from 13 to 22 the number of major crimes that the federal government could prosecute without trial jurisdiction. According to AIM, the definitions are too broad and could be misused by an overzealous prosecutor.
For example, an Indian could be convicted of a minor offense if he was first charged with one of the main crimes, Carol Strickland, who analyzed the bills for AIM, said. The Indian could be convicted without tribal jurisdiction, she said.
According to Regina Brave of Denver, who is coordinating the walk in that region, about 105 walkers left Richfield, Utah, today to continue their walk. The walkers, including non-Indians, she said, range in age from six to 60.
DUPUS SAID the group, which averages
miles a week, had encountered no
bottles.
"The white community has said 'right on' as we passed," he said.
Brave said the hardest past of the journey would be crossing the mountains. That part of the walk would as long as two weeks, she said.
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The president of Haskell Indian Junior College, Wally Guluzzi, said Friday that he could not comment on the legislation because he had not read the bills.
The walks should pass through Lawrence in May, she said.
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HOWEVER, she said that the students did not realize the impact of the legislation.
"Our students don't realize that our rights are being taken away." Eastman said.
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Eastman said she was not sure which action he would be taken when the marchers approached through a gate.
Dupuis said, "If I were a student at Haskell and the 'Longest Walk' were coming through, I'd quit school and on the walk."
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Two KU students and one Lawrence man are free on bond after their arrest Thursday on the charge of selling cocaine and other drugs in the area of Investigation agents in Lawrence.
David A. Tucker, Wichita senior, is free on $7,000 bond, and Anthony S. BACKUS, an assistant professor at Indiana State University.
The men are to appear in Douglas County District Court this week to answer charges that they sold the drugs to KBI undercover agents in three separate incidents in Lawrence during the past three months.
bond. Carl E. Lutz, 19, 1900 W. 31st St., is free on $10,000 bond.
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