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That's where Gore has always had problems. Someone on his staff once had to tell him, "Sir, people think you clap funny. Put your fingers together." His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires. Last week in Sioux Falls, S.D., he drained the energy from a gymnasium full of 600 elementary schoolers by quizzing them on the merits of smaller class size. Four days later in New Hampshire, he numbed an expectant audience, which had come to hear about long-term health care, by opening his presentation with a long, awkward tutorial on Kosovo...
...hyphenated identities are awkward, particularly 'Native American,'" Heston said. "I am a Native American, for God's sake. I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux...
Means, an Oglala Sioux, is charged by the Navajo Nation Supreme Court with one count of "threatening" and two counts of battery stemming from a 1997 incident with his in-laws...
...issue in the case is whether the Navajo Nation has criminal jurisdiction over Means, an American Indian who is Sioux but who has lived for a decade on a Navajo reservation with his half-Navajo wife...
Means is charged by the Navajo with one count of "threatening" and two counts of "battery" from a 1997 incident between Means and his in-laws. An Oglala Sioux actor, Means is the first national director of the American Indian Movement, an Indian rights group that led a two-month-long standoff at Wounded Knee...