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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, February 16, 1973
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Caucuses dominate
in Second Ward, mayor'
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Sinclair advocates salary cuts
for all city employes who earn
over $14,000, and a central phone
number for people who have com-
plaints against the police.
Still another candidate, Alexan-
der Stephenson, is not aligned with
any of the party caucuses, and de-
scribes himself as "a bourgeous
individual who's trying to hustle
a job."
Stephenson wants the HRP not to
"become merely the champion of
the elite of the spokesman of the1
middle class." "To maintain aJ
place in history we must raise our
consciousness to become aware of
the low survival potential of our
society," he says.
Monday's primary marks the
first time the HRP has had a pri-
mary for the mayor's race.
Benita Kaimowitz is one of the
three mayoral candidates. Support-
ed by members of the Militant
Middle and Rainbow factions of
Indians seek return
of ancestral bones
HRP, Kaimowitz feels she could us to try to draw other types of
attract persons who would other- people into our party."
wise vote Democratic. If elected, Richard Steinhart,
The primary hopeful believes another mayoral candidate, would
that "it is now imperative that the favor a program, of "action."
Ann Arbor mayor's office and the "Drive and desire are fuel," he
City Council be composed of peo- says.
ple who will appropriate revenue "The time is rapidly approach-
sharing money for such things as ing", he adds, "when the city as
child care, health care, and the we know'it will be extinct. It is vit-
construction of low and middle- al that Ann Arbor maintain its po-
income housing." sition as an open form and artis-
"City government must begin to tic center in the confining atmos-
function for those who've been phere of surrounding communities.
left out - for blacks, students, wo- "As a people we must imme-
men, neighborhood groups, work- diately deal with public and cor-
ers, and poor people." porate responsibility and morality.
Anne Bobroff is a member of the Our city should function for the
Chocolate Almond caucus. Like benefit of its people."
North, Bobroff does not believe Steinhart emphasizes the devel-
that serious change can be ef- opment of alternate forms of trans-
fected by City Council. portation, including more bicycle
"HRP should push for whatever paths, improved sidewalk repair,
reforms we can get through City and extended bus service.
Council," she says. But an equal- Three other HRP candidates are
ly important role for our condi- running uncontested in primary
dates and elected officials is to races. No party member is run-
participate in, aid, and publicize ning in the mostly Republican
mass movements." Third Ward.
Like North, Bobroff is in favor Andrei Joseph, a graduate edu-
of broadening HRP's constituency. cation student, is running in the
"The' student and anti-war First Ward. Philip Carroll, long
movements of the 1960's made the active in local left-wing politics,
student community acutely aware is a hopeful in the Fourth, and
of how powerless we are without John Minnock, a second year law
the support of many other groups student, is seeking the Fifth Ward
in society. So it's important for i Council seat.
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"I feel that I don't have to beg
or plead with you to give us back
what you have taken from us,"
McCoy saidin a shaky voice, close
to tears.
"We ask now that you return
what is ours and never again com-
mit this humiliation upon our fore-
fathers and therefore upon us," she
said.
History shows that the white man
has never understood the Indian,
McCoy continued, and digging up an
Indian's remains and displaying
them in a museum typifies this-
"it steals dignity from our an-
cestors."
Frederick Boyd, community rela-
tions chairman of the Detroit
North American Indian Association,
said that the University "could no
longer use these bones" for an-
thropological or medical reasons.
"You have weighed, analyzed,
and set it (the skeleton) upon your
shelves for some 25 years," he con-
tinued, and it is time -that you
return it to the Indian community.
"Your people have dared to mo-
lest our dead," Boyd said. Then he
asked those present, "How would
you like it if we dug up your great-
great-grandfather?"
According to Moose Pamp, also
representative of the Detroit North
A m e r i c a n Indian Association,
"there is an increasing number of
Indians on campus and we're sen-
sitive to having our ancestors put
on display . . . they are of no
archaeological advantage now."
We want the Indian bones back
so they can be "returned to their
mother earth," and not violate our
beliefs, Pamp said.
Thurman Bear, representative of
the American Indian Services of
Highland Park, said, "We still
can't get our people buried proper-
ly. . . . We feel that this person
(the skeletal remains) should rest
in peace. Your own Christian doc-
trines speak of eternal peace, but
this poor soul has never known
eternal peace," Bear said.
Bear then pressed for a more
specific date for the Regents' re-
ply, asking, "When are we going
to get an answer? I've had 480
years of pussy-footing around."
The Indians, however, may have
to wait a long time for their skele-
ton. For Allan Smith, vice presi-
dent for academic affairs, said
yesterday that the University feels
that "the Indian skeletal remains
should be retained for scientific
research and not display purposes."
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People's Party House. Come and talk with Dave
Sinclair, who's running in the 2nd Ward Human
Rights Party Primary, tour the houses and get
ready for the Primary on Monday, February 19th.
3-6 P.M. SUNDAY, FEB.18
HRP Primar y- MONDAY, Feb.19
Paid for by Humans for Dave Sinclair
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