Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to break a grim cycle of alcoholism and despair by living as their forebears did: sleeping in teepees, traveling on horseback and learning their once forbidden language and ceremonies from tribal elders. "This camp is more than a camp," says Gregg Bourland, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. "In a way it is the rebirth of the Great Sioux Nation...
This may be a heavy agenda. But for the Lakota--what the western Sioux tribes call themselves--and many of America's nearly 2 million Native Americans, the situation is critical. Tribal health-care specialists say that on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, an area about the size of Connecticut where 10,000 Lakota live, 85% of the population between ages 12 and 35 binge on alcohol and other drugs; child abuse is rampant; and gangs like the Crips and Bloods have been offering a brutal form of sanctuary for lost or neglected kids...
...Senator and Presidential candidate Bob Dole (R-Kan.) at a rally in Sioux Falls, S.D., attempting to broaden his appeal after being upset by Pat Buchanan in the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday...
...Missouri-born, Princeton-educated Bradley (Rhodes scholar, 1965-67) has also been a pretty good team player. He worked hard for his state and was a determined if quixotic battler for such causes as tax reform, equitable water distribution in California and retributive justice for South Dakota's Lakota Sioux...
Susan Power, a 1986 graduate of the Law School, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and author of the award-winning novel The Grass Dancers, read experts from her short story entitled "First Fruits" in honor of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck 1665, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College...