Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Cale and Siouxsie Sioux, supported by Siouxsie's current band, The Creatures, played a beautiful concert. Two well-established musicians of disparate backgrounds and reputations can rarely be expected to work together smoothly; yet these two performers, combining their skills, managed to impress the audience with a flawlessly performed repertoire. The Creatures played backup for Cale, just as Cale gladly lent them a hand during Siouxsie's singing...
...Anima Animus. She announced from the start that few of her songs would be from the past. "No MTV dumbing down here," she smirked. This all-new material found a receptive audience, as did the few older songs that The Creatures played: the beautiful "Miss the Girl," for which Sioux strapped on a bracelet with bells, was especially enjoyable, as were some of the new songs such as "Turn It On" and "Prettiest Thing...
...only the first line of skirmish. At issue is nothing less than how Americans define themselves. From a wall festooned with flintlock rifles, Heston takes down a skinning knife made from a deer antler. "It was given to me when I was made a blood brother of the Miniconjou Sioux in 1951," he explains. He fingers it lovingly. And then the actor, who traces his Scots ancestors back to 18th century Canada, exclaims with sudden passion, "I'm pissed off when Indians say they're Native Americans! I'm a Native American, for chrisakes...
...Wakanyeja," a Lakota Sioux expression signifying "children are sacred," was both the title and the message of a youth performance on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) at Longfellow Hall yesterday evening...
...event, co-sponsored by the Harvard Education Forum and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), brought to the University a troupe of 10 young, Ogallala Sioux actors, aged 13 to 15, who came to preach the dangers of alcohol consumption during pregnancy...