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...year-old retiree in East Hanover, N.J., he was a radioman on the minelayer Oglala when the attack began...
...Mexico. He relates that in 1910 C.W. Post, the cereal magnate, tried to produce rain at Post City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux chief, and talks himself into a long, marveling chapter on the splendid old warrior's death. It might be expected that a writer accustomed to being funny in magazines would perform too gaudily in a book of this kind, luxuriate too much in the acuteness of his ironies. Frazier...
THIS CATCH-22 situation has to be in Russell Means's mind as he tries to get elected president of the Oglala Sioux tribal council. While he watches the young move out to the cities and the old die off or die in the bottle, he knows that answers to all his problems could be right at his feet in the form of uranium and other valuable minerals...
...this 1932 classic, Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak., collaborated with white Author John G. Neihardt...
Banks' disappearance did nothing to cool matters at the nearby Oglala Sioux's Pine Ridge Reservation. There the AIM members and sympathizers, many of them fullblood Indians, want to depose Tribal President Richard Wilson and his mostly mixed-blood followers. At week's end many AIM members were gathering at Pine Ridge to participate in a traditional Sioux sun dance, an occasion that held the danger of further violence. In any event, it is clear that the problem of Indian protest is still far from solved...