...and the meek shall inherit the Earth
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Examines the American Indians of Menominee County, Wisconsin, the only Indian-governed county in the nation, and explains that they are losing their struggle for local control and self-sufficiency. Points out that in the 1950s, when the Menominees were "terminated" as a tribe under the Bureau of Indian Affairs' supervision, they had accumulated $10.5 million in their treasury; today, however, 70% of the people are under the $3,000 poverty level. Explains that after the Bureau of Indian Affairs' supervision ended, each family had to purchase the land they had lived on for generations and that the present local tax base cannot support all public services. Records that since the Menominees are forced by economic pressures to sell land to outsiders there is the possibility that they may lose control to the new white residents.
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