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SKINS. Chris Eyre, director of Sundance favorite Smoke Signals, returns with another fearless survey of the afflictions of Native American reservation life: poverty, alcoholism and inadequate education. Lakota police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge and his self-destructive Vietnam vet brother Mogie, raised with Mount Rushmore looming above them, deal with their history and their anger at one another. Having created tragicomedy that is unstintingly political, Eyre put his money where his mouth was—this past month, his “Rolling Rez” tour took a mobile theater and screened the film free of charge at Indian...
...largest voting-rights lawsuit in U.S. history is expected to be filed this week in South Dakota, and it could have an impact on a closely watched Senate race this fall. Four Lakota Indians are challenging more than 600 election statutes that they say may have helped stymie the political power of the state's large Native American population. The suit will contest voting regulations in two overwhelmingly Indian counties on the grounds that the state failed to clear them with the Justice Department as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The tactics being challenged include some targeted...
...Standing Rock, the combative past survives in surnames. On radio station KLND--that's Lakota, Nakota, Dakota--the news is from Mike Kills Pretty Enemy, the music from Virgil Taken Alive. Last month tribe members gathered near the grave site of Sitting Bull, General George Custer's conqueror, to pray at the graves of long-ago chiefs--Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they...
...coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider - and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million-acre reservation. To train them, Bourland persuaded Cisco Systems to open one of its networking academies on the reservation. Students at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School now learn to design, build and maintain computer networks...
...coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider--and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million-acre reservation. To train them, Bourland persuaded Cisco Systems to open one of its networking academies on the reservation. Students at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School now learn to design, build and maintain computer networks...