Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interchange that they [the speakers] are having is incredible," said Herb A. Becker, Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe...
...guys do meditate. Plus, they write about it. Chicago Bulls coach PHIL JACKSON and movie star-martial artist-deodorant endorser CHUCK NORRIS are both releasing books on Zen. In Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, released this month, Jackson--or Swift Eagle, as his friends the Lakota Sioux call him--expounds his theory that in basketball "the mystery of life gets played out night after night" and suggests that the pertinent thing about the Bulls' signature triangle offense is that it "embodies the Zen Christian attitude of selfless awareness." Norris' book, The Secret Power Within, his second contribution...
Little Boy does not have a job. He was a janitor once, and a tribal policeman for a while when his uncle was police commissioner. But jobs on the Sioux's Pine Ridge reservation are so scarce that only 1 out of every 3 adults has one. In fact, as in hundreds of other reservations where Third World conditions prevail, there is only one real source of income, only one source of medical services and of food. There is only one real source of hope that someday Little Boy's family will be able to move out of squalor...
Standing off Highway 18 on the Pine Ridge reservation is what Slade Gorton would like to believe is a symbol of hope and self-sufficiency. It is Prairie Wind, the Oglala Sioux's venture into Indian gambling. Housed temporarily in two connected double-wide trailers, it consists of several slot machines and two tables for poker and blackjack. The casino's revenues in its 10 months of existence have run from $13,000 to $92,000 a month, of which 30% is earmarked for its investors. Thus far, after expenses, it has provided $10,000 for children's school clothes...
...equally valid symbol of the tribe's future fortunes, at least at this particular historical juncture, can be found 19 miles away at Wounded Knee, where a band of peaceful Sioux were mowed down by the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in 1890. Here is a man in ragged, dirty jeans and a filthy red T shirt. His face is puffy and pockmarked, and there is liquor on his breath. His hand outstretched, he claims he is the caretaker of the Oglala Sioux cemetery...