Word: sioux
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What a guy! What an anachronism! For Dunbar is not a 1990s yuppie who suddenly decides to take his Sierra Club membership seriously. He is a lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry, circa 1864. Given command of a small fort deep in Sioux country, he finds that its garrison has mysteriously disappeared. That provides him the freedom for self-discovery and for developing peaceable relationships with the Indians, as well as a romance with Stands with a Fist, a white woman who was taken captive by Indians as a child (hauntingly played by Mary McDonnell...
Dances with Wolves -- it is the name the Sioux give Dunbar -- is a movie that is very easy to make fun of, and not merely because of Dunbar's risible ahistoricism. It would be nice, for instance, to meet some white man, other than Dunbar, who is not a brutish lout. And it would not harm the film if there were one or two bad-natured Sioux visible in it. (The Pawnee, who obviously need a p.r. consultant, are portrayed as the scourge of the prairies.) It is, as well, all too easy to see why Costner -- or any actor...
WOUNDED KNEE: LEST WE FORGET, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo. One hundred years after the army massacred more than 145 Sioux at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., an exhibit of photo murals, weaponry and Ghost Dance garments illuminates the tribe's life and religion in the late 19th century and the reasons behind the killings. Through...
...have denounced it. Bodyguards were furnished for the Poppers this spring when they went onstage in Nebraska to further explain their idea. But the Poppers did win support from other academics, some in the plains. Vine Deloria Jr. of the University of Colorado, an Indian activist (he's a Sioux) and author (Custer Died for Your Sins), feels that such a scheme might help break the cycle of welfare and subsidy checks that have held many Indians in serfdom for decades...
...take the Federal Aviation Administration months or even years to act to prevent a repeat tragedy. Last week the FAA proposed an order to require DC-10 operators to modify their planes to prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...