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...surprisingly, history rarely mentions conciliators: man's sense of the dramatic is more aroused by violence than by the "effort to establish harmony and good will." Among U.S. heroes, George Custer outranks William Penn, who pacified Indians with kindness rather than carbines. How many American boys would rather win the Nobel Peace Prize than the Medal of Honor...
...Capitol Hill at a time when Indians, for all their poverty, may be in a stronger position than they were in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The supposedly vanishing Americans now number 600,000, more than twice the estimated U.S. Indian population at the time of Custer's last stand...
They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...polished vibes approach that was based on the flowing style of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, but he still felt that his musical personality was as neatly buttoned down as his collar. So he went on his own, decked himself out in the Custer buckskins, and literally let his hair down. "I felt I should get my personality across to people," he says. "All short haircuts look the same, but no two long ones...
...Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards demanding "Red Power" and bumper stickers with the slogan: "Custer Died for Your Sins." Subliminal Triumph. Everywhere on Wakefield's journey, the organization men-whom he may over-villainize-seemed to be winning. Even what is apparently spontaneous turns out to be organized-subliminally. Last summer's ghetto riots, for instance. Black Power was not the culprit...