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...Indian movie, Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, has been filmed on Montana's Crow reservation. It portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly details
...premiere of a full-length movie produced specially for television, The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones, starring Robert Horton, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Gary Merrill and Diane Baker...
...tribes were gathered for their annual powwow in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions...
...sweaty stereotypes encountered, Brian Keith rings true as an amiable peddler who teaches young Nevada how to shoot. Keith warns the lad to give up his search for the killers, or "root with them in the garbage." Nevada prefers to root, and finds plenty of raw material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada Smith unreels in refulgent color against a sweep of rocky crags and sagebrush more magnificent than usual...
Lieut. Joseph E. Guion, skipper of Kiowa, and Lieut, (j.g.) Raymond E. Foy, a Navy frogman, described the sight. Said Guion: "It looked like an extremely large shooting star, very white and blinking. It was a little sun falling down." Said Foy: "The light was a lot more intense than the moon. It was almost painful to look directly at it.'' The meteor flared through the sky, disappeared behind a cloud bank, blazed forth below. It slowed down, dimming its light and blooming two parachutes, dropped into the sea about five miles from Kiowa. This was what...