Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into someplace better than where he lives now. Little Boy, 41, lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer...
...Waterworld to Hollywood reporters weren't enough, Kevin Costner has found himself on the defensive with a group of people who once called him a friend. The director and star of 1990's Dances with Wolves, which treated Native American culture so respectfully, is suddenly persona non grata among Sioux activists in South Dakota. The rift is over Costner's efforts to acquire 630 acres of federal property in the Black Hills--land the Sioux consider sacred and claim was illegally seized in 1877 by the U.S. government...
Costner and his brother Dan, who already own a casino-restaurant in Deadwood, are building a more than $100 million resort there and are ogling the parcel for the compound's planned golf course. The spiritual Sioux find this hard to comprehend. "Costner just wants to make himself more powerful, greater and bigger," claims Sidney Keith, a Lakota Sioux elder. Lakota activist Madonna Thunder Hawk protests, "It's a betrayal. Costner is making millions on our backs...
...Forest Service will decide this fall whether to let Costner procure the parcel in exchange for a 585-acre site 12 miles from Deadwood. The Costners aren't talking, but Jim Fisher, program director for the planned resort, contends that the critics represent only a vocal minority of Sioux and that the resort will improve an 85-acre site that used to be a salvage yard. "We view all land as sacred," he says. "We're going to add something environmentally." Which doubtless won't calm the ruckus over what some Sioux are calling Costner's field of green...
Omri's first friend to come to life is an Indian brave named Little Bear, who stands about four inches tall. Although Little Bear scolds Omri for playing with "magic he doesn't understand," the two quickly become friends. Little Bear teaches Omri about life in a Sioux Indian tribe...