Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LATE 1960s, when Washington was still showing a degree of concern for the poor, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) hired me to help investigate housing conditions on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota. With a team of self-confessed experts I visited all 22 villages, from Two Strike to Milk's Camp, and discovered, among other this, that families there had much to endure. Many occupied dirt floor huts bereft of adequate heat and running water; some were forced to sleep, even to cook, in rusted-out car bodies. The families were virtually defenseless against the frequent...
...must work the gambling wheel at the Elks' club to raise her son Kurt and to keep the fallow farm where her widowed mother bitterly awaits death. Part II is Kurt's account of Mother Marge's struggles, her drinking and her unhousebroken boyfriends, including a Sioux sheep rancher. The novel concludes with a hint of contrivance as the title, Leaving the Land, takes on a resonant double meaning: the inevitability of departures and the promise of continuity...
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...
...Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed below zero for eight days in Omaha, ten days in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., three days in St. Louis. Much of the South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather historians saw parallels with dreadful pioneer winters. "This is decidedly the coldest December in Iowa," said State Climatologist Paul Waite. "It looks like it will...
...scores were saved. On South Dakota's huge Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick...