Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (North Carolina) United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians (in Oklahoma) · Over 200 groups claim to be Cherokee nations, tribes and bands Traditional activities agriculture, ranching, forestry, fishing, mining · Nontraditional land-based activities tourism, manufacturing, providing dumping sites for solid and hazardous wastes · Non-land based activities providing services for the passersby, wage labor off the reservation, bingo and casino gambling *Native Americans in the White Mind = · 19th century Native Americans perceived as museum pieces, destined to disappear completely · Hippies became interested in Native American cultures, a valuable model for alternative lifestyles · Images of the noble savage, peaceful and harmonious communities · Negative images of drunken, violence-prone, lazy Native Americans
him and willing to stand up for him. Author's note: As in the Regan experiment, it appears that the man's personal characteris· tics were less relevant to the reader's decision to help him than the simple fact that he had helped her. not only in followers, but also in wealth and property. The economic growth was funded through a variety of activities, the principal and most visible of which was society members' requests for donations from passersby in public places. During the early history of the group in this country, the solicitation for contributions was attempted in a fashion memorable for anyone who saw it. Groups of Krishna devo- tees-often with shaved heads, and wearing ill-fitting robes, leg wrappings, beads, and bells-would canvass a city street, chanting and bobbing in unison while beg- ging for funds. Although highly effective as an attention-getting technique, this practice did
pronunciation; perhaps even for a deliberate archaism as a reaction against foreign influence. But many inscriptions are tinctured, for the first time, with the second essential for cryptology—secrecy. In a few cases, the secrecy was intended to increase the mystery and hence the arcane magical powers of certain religious texts. But the secrecy in many more cases resulted from the understandable desire of the Egyptians to have passersby read their epitaphs and so confer upon the departed the blessings written therein. In Egypt, with its concentration upon the afterlife, the number of these inscriptions soon • proliferated to such an extent that the attention and the goodwill of visitors flagged. To revive their interest, the scribes deliberately made the inscriptions a bit obscure. They introduced the cryptographic signs to catch the reader's eye, make him wonder, and
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