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Kent Mackenzie, 34, a Californian, got his $10,000 by submitting three pictures with a total running time of one hour and 54 minutes. Two of Mackenzie's films are good, straightforward documentaries, one on a rodeo cowboy and the other on old people doomed to lose their homes to urban redevelopment in Los Angeles. But his really arresting accomplishment is a semidocumentary, full-length feature called The Exiles, a picture about American Indians as they live in Los Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing...
EMPIRE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Keir Dullea portrays a former rodeo rider who has become an embittered cripple. Color...
...that reason the Harvard volunteers went to reservations where they were invited by tribal councils and took part in programs the tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped...
...Bynum knows all these dangers (he has suffered a broken leg, a broken wrist, and "a few horns in the gut"), but he carefully balances caution against the daring needed to win. "I know they're always going to have a rodeo next week," he smiles. "I'm not going to do anything to get myself hurt." Alabama-born, Big Jim has been bull-dogging almost 20 years, now grows cotton on a farm near Dallas. He tends it carefully in good years and leaves it readily when the sun-withered crop is poor. "They say they...
...Bulldogging remains the popular layman's term, but modern rodeo cowboys prefer to call it steer wrestling; it is one of five standard events of the professional rodeo. Others: calf roping, bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle bronc riding...