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...N.A.A.C.P. and Harvard's Center for Law and Education charged that federal funds appropriated for Indian education have been siphoned off for white schools. The discovery of immense oil deposits on Alaska's North Slope threatens to uproot thousands of Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians. In Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the buffalo have grown so numerous that the state allows hunting. A license to shoot buffalo costs $500. There are no discounts to Indians...
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. His eyes are agate chips; senility seeps through the cracks in his voice. But Crabb is not your average superannuated former Indian fighter, former Indian, intimate of Wild Bill Hickok and General George Armstrong Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and drunkard. No sir. He is Little Big Man, sole survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He may tell a stretcher or two, but when he reminisces, graduate students listen. A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls...
...petulant editorial. In the era of occupied Alcatraz, surely it is no news that the white man spoke with forked tongue, that the first Americans were maltreated as the last savages. The Battle of Little Bighorn, which should be the film's climax, is its weakest point. General Custer is pure Pig on the Prairie, babbling insanely as the consummate racist militant. As overplayed by Richard Mulligan, he could be sectioned, labeled Swift's Premium and sold in butcher shops...
...Crimson ladder-Fish, Briggs, Alan Quasha and Dan Gordon-will represent Harvard in the University Tournament to be held in New York City next week. The holiday competition is traditionally a preview of the intercollegiate individual championship. The tournament favorites are Penn's Palmer Page, Navy's Bob Custer, and Princeton's Sandy McAdoo...
...victory over Amherst will be difficult. The Lord Jeffs are extremely strong at the top of the ladder. Amherst swept the top four matches against Navy, including a win at number one by southpaw Mike Pelletier over Navy's Bob Custer, who is considered the second best collegiate squash player behind Penn's Palmer Page...