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Edmunds and the other members of the commission tried to persuade the Indians to allow the Federal government to build roads across the Indian country. The government was particularly interested in fortifying the Bozeman Trail, which ran along the Powder River and was the only route from Fort Laramie to Montana...
...Sioux spiritual leader named Leonard Crow Dog struck up a chant in the Lakota language. As each warrior passed by, he blessed him and painted a slash or a circle of red powder under the left eye. Each warrior then stepped into a white tepee, making a holy sign over the bleached skull of a buffalo head...
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.--The seizure of Wounded Knee 17 days ago by members of the American Indian Movement finally brought a smouldering powder keg close to its explosion point. Since AIM was founded in Minneapolis, Minn. in 1968, its increasingly activist message pointed inevitably to a militant...
Instead of paint and powder on my face...
...University of Montana skier said yesterday Magowan "probably was't used to skiing on ice. In Nevada, there's no ice, just powder," he said. An investigation of the accident continues today...