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Blonde Socialite Plugs For IndiansEL FASO, Tex. i AP) -Blonde Millionairess Candy Mossier Garrison bought a $125 necklace here Tuesday — the first step in what she says may be a financial windfall for the Tigua Indians.“It’s not right that they are pushed aside,” the comely Houston socialite said. “I want to help them bring back their craftsmanship.”Mrs. Garrison said she had read about them and decided something should be done for them. They have been forgotten.”She did not hint what or how much her assistance may be but said she plans to discuss it further with U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs representatives today in Houston.“I want to bring their condition to the attention of the public,” she explained.Mrs. Garrison and her nephew, Melvin I-ane Powers, gained headlines across the nation in 1966 when the pair went on trial in Miami, Fla. in the slaying of her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossier. Both were acquitted and the killing remains unsolved.The Tigua Indians were discovered by ethnologists and anthropologists about the same time. For years they had been thought to be Mexican-Americans like the thousands of others in the area.Numbering about .'*00, the Tigtias’ chief source of income is tourist crafts and, according to Mrs. Garrison, working as helpers to the white man ... in the low rent section.”“It’s a terrible thing to see a people lose their skills. They want to help themselves by regaining their ancient skills and reviving their tribal customs and heritage,” she said.Mrs. Garrison and her entourage toured the Tigua reservation Tuesday, studying how we might be able to bring something to them. This was their land first and I believe that when you take a dollar out your should put one back.”Mrs. Garrison paid $125 for an Indian necklace that’s real groovy ”, saying it made her 14 karat diamond pale by comparison“Everyone said the necklace is just fabulous and unusual. There isn’t anything unusual about a diamond. They are real craftsmen,” she said.
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Snyder Daily News
Snyder, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 09, 1972
Page 7
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