Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morgan (Richard Harris) enters America as a white hunter and emerges as an Indian chief. His small hunting party is annihilated by Sioux who decide to keep the Englishman as a plaything. They dub him Horse, tether his neck and make him clop about on all fours. Just before his spirit splinters, Horse is beguiled by an Indian maiden named Running Deer (Corinna Tsopei). The only way to bed her is to wed her, he reasons, and to do that he must earn a place in the home of the braves. To prove his prowess, Morgan takes...
...Ballou. In A Man Called Horse, he capitalizes on honesty. Little of this American-made film is in English; the cast is largely composed of true Indians who look as authentic as their names: Richard Fools Bull, Ben Eagleman, Edward Little Sky. The movie portrays the Sioux as a repressive, formally violent people who master their mutual hysteria by refracting it into a hundred narrow superstitions. But their cruelty is no more harsh or capricious than the weather. And their obsessive chants and dances are produced by men to whom the earth is not a temporary riddle but a final...
...Perhaps the American Indian has some right to be indignant at being misnamed by "some dumb honky who got lost," to use the words of a Berkeley student whom TIME ironically refers to as a "Sioux"-a good old honky name for the Lakota or Dakota people. But then, so would the Innuit, who were misnamed "Eskimo" by their traditional enemy, the "Indians." No racial insult was intended in the first misnaming-I'm sure plenty was intended in the second! And by the way, the artist whose photo you show is probably no more an Indian than...
...villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly details
...pointed by President Johnson in 1966 and admired by most moderate Indian leaders. An Oneida from Wisconsin and a career BIA man, Bennett resigned in dismay last July, charging that "the new Administration has completely ignored the Indians." His successor is Louis Bruce, part Mohawk and part Oglala Sioux, who seems just as frustrated as his people in dealing with the Great White Father. "I keep hearing terrible and sad things that are happening that I didn't know about." One trouble with the bureau, claims one of its most effective field men, is that it is overstaffed...