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Thursday, July 6, 1972
University Summer Kansan
St. Marv's
Indians Organize Campus
New Goals for St. Mary's
IN ADDITION, an extensive program is planned to inform the poor community and varying
Man's eternal dream for self-determination may become a reality for the Prairie Band of the Ojibwe and a legacy of a recent movement led by the tribal council to regain land when was once part of their reser-
He also said that the black vote was important in Kansas City, and the project we worked on could might influence political office seekers.
"One of the problems with its life," he said. "It did it at a non-political time." Cleaver said. "There was a lot of哭泣, but no real pressure exerted."
Tent City...
The SCLC hoped that it would help encourage more black students to attend school. One thing the SCLC is working for is an increase in black deputies are an affirmative action program on law enforcement agencies.
Lester Jessepe and Frank Batteze, both tribal business committee members, Norm Hunt, the School of Social Welfare, and Rev. Hubert Schiffer, Rockhurst, have all been considering ways of getting money, materials and manpower to make the farm better.
THE TRIBE recently received the land after months of research, negotiations and planning.
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students in a social activism class and the teacher, Forer. researched the project for three semesters. Forer estimated that more than 40 students were in an aspect of the project.
After retrieving the 1,381 area that include St. Mary's college campus, the triune was moved to a farm and campus and farm land to use.
The move to regain the land began after Jesuits closed the college five years ago and put the land up for sale.
The land, which was part of the reservation in a treaty signed in 1848, was eventually sold to a railroad and part of it was set aside for Jesuits to set up a secondary school for the indians.
LATER the missionary school was closed and a seminary for Jesuit priests opened in January 1872.
government agencies of the
existing problems. SCLC will
sold a town meeting and discuss
business. They will also break
down into committees to discuss
their issues such as welfare and housing.
Another poor people's city is currently being planned by the national SCLC in Miami Beach Democratic Convention. It will involve 450 people or more. The Miami Beach city council voted Wednesday to allow the poor to camp out on the beaches.
Ueweaard said the nation's black community to act against the demonstration before the Democracy convention urging them to establish solid programs to aid the black community.
Prof Appointed To Counsel History Board
Paul E. Wilson, professor of law, was appointed recently to the board of advisers of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Wilson, a director of the Kansas State Historical Society and former editor of the "American Criminal Law Quarterly," has written numerous articles on criminal law and legal history.
The National Trust is the only private, national organization chartered by Congress to encourage public participation in the construction sector, buildings and objects of American history and culture.
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Battese said that older men remember the hearings promised that if the church ever no longer used the land, it would be given to the church.
The actual beginning of the movement started within the structure of tribal government, when a group called the tribal committee gained hunting and fishing rights for the reservation land at Mayetta. The committee then began to move into the area of tribal government and in 1970, they were elected to the tribal council.
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Ferer's social activism class helped the committee with a court case and sponsored a drive to community support for a free election.
Jessew was elected as business committee chairman and Battewe took charge of the development aspect of the program.
KU LAW School faculty and students supported the tribe with legal assistance.
In October 1970, Duane Evans, a graduate student at KU, began the public programs for the tribe and was joined by Forer and the social work department.
The classes researched the history of land transfers and developed a comprehensive development program. The negotiations with the tribal council and the jesuits began
FINALLY the announcement came that the Jesuits would give the land to the tribe and the other determination won a major victory.
Some of the programs the tribe is consider including vocational training, art classes and volumes, a cooperative food store, tuition programs and a program on culinary arts.
BATTESE said that only minor repairs like roof-patching would be necessary to put the buildings into usable condition.
Battese said that they hoped to have a day care center and a home for the aged by this fall.
The campus includes nine buildings with a gymnasium, a church and a swimming pool that actually was the basement of an old building are in good condition, according to Battese, considering their age and the fact that they have been vacant for five years.
Besides repairing the buildings and cleaning up the grounds of the campus, the tribe has started collecting government surplus materials and machinery. They have two small buses which they use to carry care center and a larger bus to use for long distance traveling.
The tribe received warm accolades from civic officials, the local press and church leaders. Battese said. He thought most of the townpeople would support him.
Currently there are a few people living on the campus. One of them is a graduate from Oregon and asked Bastien for a job, which he gave them. Others living there include a few men of color who are living on the buildings and grounds.
ONE OF THE main problems facing the movement now is money. Various proposals are being made to fund the financial funds, but so far the only outside source comes from the Kansas State Department of Education, the Northeast Kansas University and private and church donations.
Katherine Menninger, Topeka, has offered to serve on a fundraising committee. Battese was one of the candidates for donations. The tribe also plans to ask industries and help to supply them to help start the programs.
A group from Kansas State University has offered to build an experimental playground for the day care center. Batese said she uses the people planned to use old tires for swings, mounds of dirt and foot bridges for materials rather than concrete, or a plastic-like slides and merry-go-rounds.
One of the buildings on the campus houses a huge kitchen equipped for the day care center this fall. Battese said that he hoped it eventually would house the kitchen, the tenants paying only for food and utilities. The building also houses the tribal administrative offices.
Battese said that the major emphasis of the movement was on education. He said that in the past, he had taught political awareness along with carpentry. The library will, if the dream comes true, hold one of the largest collections of Influential materials in the United States.
Frank Battese
Text by
Jeanne Elliott
Kansan
Staff
Photos
by
Hank Young
Lester Jessepe
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