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...INCIDENT AT OGLALA, WHICH IS A documentary, two FBI agents lose their life as they pursue a suspect on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Sioux Indian reservation. In Thunderheart, which is fictional, an FBI agent regains his soul as he investigates a murder in the same place...
...than the documentary to portray the shameful living conditions at Pine Ridge and to suggest the power of the mystical traditions AIM sought to revive. Its protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief Ted Thin Elk). Slowly, but with powerfully accumulating dramatic effect, they put Levoi in touch with...
...more than a century, the Custer Battlefield National Monument in southeastern Montana has served as a memorial to the "Last Stand," in which Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry met their death in a fierce battle with Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876. Last week Congress approved a bill to rename the park the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The bill would also create an Indian memorial there, in recognition that Native Americans too fought and died in the clash, which was their last major victory against...
...February of this year, at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic in Minneapolis, eggs taken from Christa's ovaries were fertilized with her husband Kevin Uchytil's sperm, then implanted in Arlette's uterus. Ten days later, Arlette telephoned her daughter and son-in-law, who live in Sioux City, Iowa. "Congratulations!" she triumphantly exclaimed. "You're pregnant." Not long thereafter, Christa, viewing an ultrasound picture of her mother's tummy, saw two heartbeats and realized that her mother would give birth to twins. "How lucky could I be!" Christa said. "This just takes my breath away...
...everyone was in a mood to celebrate. Environmentalists decry the busts as a desecration of nature. New Republic writer Alex Heard identified Gutzon Borglum, Rushmore's eccentric creator, as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. And the Sioux Indians charge that the memorial is sculpted from sacred land that was stolen by the government. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Ziolkowski family since 1948 has been carving an even grander likeness of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior, from a nearby mountain...