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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, April 25, 1986
Aid cuts to change Indian life
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — American Indians who are beaded weaned from federal assistance face as big a change in their lives as when the government forced them to reservation ags, according to an Indian official.
Indians must develop their own economic base to take care of themselves as federal programs are scaled back, William Lynn Engles, commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said yesterday.
"It is as much a profound a change as it was when Indians were moved on to reservations." Engles said.
"At that time, putting Indians on the reservations destroyed traditional lifestyles + hunting, trading.
following the buffalo north and south. They survived by federal maintenance programs. What we're seeing now is another dramatic change from dependence on the government to building an economic base."
Engles' agency sponsored a conference this week in which 200 Indians from around the country got a crash course in business. Seminars taught Indians such things as how to use an iPod product and operate in the marketplace.
The conference came after a similar NA meeting in September. That meeting was geared toward Indians living in urban areas, while the meeting this week was aimed at Indians living on reservations. Tribal Indians may have a better chance of starting a business, be said.
"Urban Indians don't have a land base," Engles said. "There is a lack of capital and a lack of a trained workforce. Most tribal business would deal with development of natural resources Tribes have a better place that is usually bigger and better financed than an urban center."
More importantly, though, is the trouble all minorities have getting cash, he said.
Indians attempting to move into the business world often think the philosophical clash between the traditional belief that the survival of the tribe is most important and the tribal government of the individual. Enules said
Bankers look at lending money from a business standpoint, Engles said, and most of them do not have a history with Indians.
Engle may run on ticket with Brier
United Press International
TOPEKA — Secretary of State Jack Brier has talked to space shuttle astronaut Joe Eagle, a native Kansas, about being his running mate in the gubernatorial race, a Briai campaign organizer said yesterday.
Brier has high regard for Engle and senses he would be an asset to the state, said Jim Concannon, a Washburn University law professor and head of Brier's campaign committee.
"I certainly think Joe is a person who has excelled at everything he has tried to do in his life." Concnan said. "I have a hunch he could open a lot of doors in economic development matters in selling Kansas."
Brier, a pilot who has toured NASA facilities in Houston with Engle, is among seven Republicans who have announced they would seek their party's nomination for governor.
"They are friends. They talk frequently," Concannon said. "Jack had talked with Joe and at least mentioned the possibility to him as much as a year ago.
"The last time Jack and Joe talked was about a month ago and it was not on that matter. It was on a nonpolitical matter. Heck, we're only two weeks into the campaign. It would be premature to speculate about a lieutenant governor candidate. No offer has been made to Joe Engle. No offer has been made to anyone."
The 53-year-old Engle has strong ties to Kansas. He was born in Champman, attended elementary school and high school in Dickinson County and received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Kansas in 1985.
Brier was in Tennessee yesterday to give a speech to the Air National Guard and was not available for comment, said a spokesman for his office.
Several firemen injured during Westport blaze
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo — Several firefighters were injured battling a fire yesterday that damaged a building housing a popular restaurant in Kansas City's Westport section.
Harold Knabe, a spokesman for the fire department, said about $300,000 worth of damage was done to the two-story building, which
housed the Corner Restaurant and eight other buildings.
Injuries to firefighters ranged from a broken hand to cuts and bruises to fatigue, Knabe said. No one else was hurt, he said.
The fire was reported shortly before 7 a.m., and 80 firefighters eventually were called to the scene, Knabe said. It was not known where or how the fire started.
On Campus
■ Herbert J. Ellison, professor of history and chairman of the Russian and East European studies department at the University of Washington, will give a speech, "The Four Superpowers in Northeast Asia: Russia, China, Japan and America," at 4 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. His speech is sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, the department of Slavic Languages and Literature and the department of Soviet and East European Studies.
The movie "Mass Appeal" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today.
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