RAGES: Pottawatomic Pow-Wow

A billion dollars today would buy no great part of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive real estate, the rich, fashionable section of the secondlargest, second-richest U. S. city. But a billion dollars was all that was asked last week by some Pottawatomie Indians for all the Lake Shore Drive, all the Gold Coast, and a part of the rest of Chicago. In Shawnee, Okla. gathered 1 ,000 Pottawatomies to take the legal warpath, solemnly pledged to recover the cash equivalent of what was once their tribe's hunting ground.

Their claim: Pottawatomie tribesmen moved...

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