Word: arapahoe
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...After high school he drifted from college to college: a semester at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, two years at Arapaho Community College, a semester at CU-Denver. Today he lives in Hawaii and works as a carpenter. If people ask about his scars, he might tell about his Columbine experience. "But I generally keep it to myself...
...Sundance Institute, which sponsors a program for fledgling Native American filmmakers. Though he had been approached by producers eager to adapt his works to the screen, Alexie bided his time until he found an Indian director with respect for the material. Enter Chris Eyre, a 28-year-old Cheyenne-Arapaho director of shorts and documentaries, who read Alexie's book and cold-called him for a meeting. Their film, later acquired by Miramax for close to $3 million, went on to win two awards at this year's Sundance Festival; it opens in Los Angeles and New York City this...
...could be Bunker Hill II for the Cheyenne-Arapaho vs. NATHAN LANDOW, Democratic moneyman and AL GORE adviser. Early this year he allegedly threatened to blackball the impoverished Oklahoma tribes with the Clinton Administration if they didn't hire him to help try to reclaim some 7,500 acres of land that was under the control of the Agriculture Department. Tribal representatives met with Landow after ponying up $107,000 to the Democrats in 1996 for a chance to make their plea to Clinton, but they saw no action on their land. Landow wanted...
...encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region. (This program costs $895 for adults and half as much for children...
...Wind River work force is unemployed, and jobs for the young are especially scarce. At the same time, the reservation's oil and gas wealth provides royalty payments of up to $300 a month per person, thus fostering a debilitating welfare culture. Howard Smith, fiscal officer for the Arapaho tribe, which shares the 2 million-acre reservation with the Shoshones, says, "Too many of our young people have time on their hands, so they drink and watch TV and get depressed...