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...mansion. But into someplace better than where he lives now. Little Boy, 41, lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering...
...major commercial development near the reservation, which sits within South Dakota's Shannon County in the shadow of the Badlands, and no factories or malls. Construction work provides some labor: unemployment drops from 85% in winter to a still miserable 65% when it is warm enough to build. Oglala who have ventured off-reservation to find work have more often found alienation and a different kind of penury and have returned. All are almost totally dependent on the Federal Government, which long ago signed treaties with the Oglalas promising education, health and welfare...
Standing off Highway 18 on the Pine Ridge reservation is what Slade Gorton would like to believe is a symbol of hope and self-sufficiency. It is Prairie Wind, the Oglala Sioux's venture into Indian gambling. Housed temporarily in two connected double-wide trailers, it consists of several slot machines and two tables for poker and blackjack. The casino's revenues in its 10 months of existence have run from $13,000 to $92,000 a month, of which 30% is earmarked for its investors. Thus far, after expenses, it has provided $10,000 for children's school clothes...
...Sioux were mowed down by the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in 1890. Here is a man in ragged, dirty jeans and a filthy red T shirt. His face is puffy and pockmarked, and there is liquor on his breath. His hand outstretched, he claims he is the caretaker of the Oglala Sioux cemetery...
...and7:50 p.m. The Shop Around the Corner on Sunday,Nov. 15 at 2, 5:55 and 9:45 p.m. Laws of Gravityon Monday, Nov. 16 at 3:50 and 8 p.m. Mean Streetsat 5:50 and 9:55 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 16. Incidentat Oglala on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 4 and 8 p.m.Thunderheart at 5:45 and 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday,Nov. 17. Babett's Feats at 4 and 7:50 p.m. onWednesday, Nov. 18. The Story of Boys and Girls at6 and 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18. BestIntentions at 8 p.m. on Friday...