Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American economy. The Internet and the overnight-shipping boom are enabling high-tech industries once tied to urban centers to settle in the countryside, creating jobs for skilled workers almost anywhere. There's a software-design company in Bolivar, Mo. (pop. 6,845); a big computer maker in North Sioux City, S.D. (pop. 2,019); a major catalog retailer in Dodgeville, Wis. (pop. 3,882), all attracting people who want to live in places where the landscape is emptier, the housing costs lower, the culture more gentle--places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create...
...return for his help, and tribal leaders say he angrily told them they'd never see their acreage if they didn't go along with his demands (he denies the threats). But tribal officer ARCHIE HOFFMAN did see something else that could be trouble for Landow: an impressive Sioux war bonnet in the reception area of Landow's office that appeared to have been fashioned from the feathers of federally protected eagles. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating and has already questioned several witnesses. If Landow is found in violation, penalties could range from forfeiture...
...wrong place at the wrong time," says Larson, who was released last month. The place was South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, the time 1990. Larson was on a prospecting trip for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a well-respected commercial fossil-supply house he founded in 1974. There's no law against selling fossils, even important ones, as long as they're found on private land, and that's what Larson thought he'd done. The acreage in question belonged to Maurice Williams, a Sioux cattle rancher, and Larson had secured permission in advance...
...trying to bar married Marine recruits. But earlier this year, the corps heralded the wedding of a young Marine couple that left for boot camp at Parris Island shortly after they exchanged vows. "We'd see each other when our formations passed each other," recalls Private Sarah Wallace of Sioux City, Iowa, the uniformed bride...
...After Custer's defeat at the battle of Little Big Horn, reports say his ears were slit, a supposed admonition from the Sioux to listen more carefully...