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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 1, 1993                   TAG: 9302010264
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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INDIAN BEANS DON'T COUNT

BEING AN old one, I would like to know why the Indians, America's first landowners, do not have a role in the nation's affairs as do the blacks and other minorities? If they do, I seem to be unaware of it.

POCAHONTAS H. MITCHELL\ ABINGDON

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