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Metal arm bands are neatly arranged by a pipe bag underneath a looming five-foot portrait of its owner: Sitting Bull, the former Lakota Sioux holy war chief who famously led the Lakota and Cheyenne troops to victory in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Nearby, old arrows are suspended in mid-air—as if shooting out from a propped bow—under an airbrushed banner depicting “thunderbirds,” mythological messengers of thunderstorms revered by Lakota members as spiritual sources for energy in battle...
...Butler, who was there with his grandfather. “It’s really hard to make these, but they’re so cool.” In addition to food and crafts, the event featured a wide range of musical performances, including Nipmuc flute playing, traditional Lakota singing, and Senegalese drumming. David H. Maybury-Lewis, emeritus Henderson research professor of anthropology, founded Cultural Survival in 1972 after he conducted research on the indigenous people of Brazil with his wife Pia Maybury-Lewis...
...friendly because it is the least populated county in the lower 48. New Jersey is the Garden State, but it's more like a planter, since it's the most densely populated in the country. Sundance, Wyo., sounds like a merry place, but it was named for a Lakota Indian festival in which young warriors cut off pieces of their flesh and then danced in a test of strength. You wonder who moves to Helltown, Devil's Den, Weedpatch (all in California); Boring, Ore.; Elephant Butte, N.M.; West Thumb, Wyo.; Trickem, Ala.; Possum Trot, Ky.; or Lonelyville, N.Y. But they...
...took me under their wing, in a manner of speaking.”Merritt R. Baer ’06, a social studies concentrator from Denver who is the alumni coordinator of Native Americans at Harvard College, said, “My little brother is of the Oglala Lakota, and we adopted him as a foster child, so that’s sort of the basis of my involvement in the Native American community.”She said that the campus group seeks to incorporate indigenous peoples’ perspectives into courses that often omit mention of Native Americans...
...levy athletic sanctions on UND. As natives we rely on the National Congress of American Indians—which has vigorously opposed the “Fighting Sioux” nickname—to represent us. We rely on our tribal government—the real Sioux, Dakota, and Lakota tribal governments who have also steadfastly opposed the “Fighting Sioux” nickname—to represent us. Perhaps we would also benefit from the support of organizations such as the NAACP and the Rainbow Coalition, who would surely be up in arms if any school name...