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Cudmore grew up in South Dakota with a Sioux Indian caretaker and Indian art instructors. "Being exposed to Indian culture made me realize that there's more than one way to look at things, and that often the Indian way is better...
...sooner had the meeting been announced than the usually calm, almost phlegmatic capital (pop. 87,000 -- about the size of Sioux City, Iowa) began madcap preparations for the onslaught of some 1,500 journalists and White House and Kremlin staffers who are to accompany President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev. Reykjavik's several hundred rental cars were immediately snapped up, and the hardy Icelanders, whose unyielding environment has taught them to take advantage of every opportunity, began offering private cars for rent...
...Mitzvah at Jerusalem's revered Western Wall. Wrapped in a prayer shawl and wearing phylacteries, he recited the Torah blessings flawlessly and with that he became a man in the tribe of Israel. But this Jew, Little Sun Bordeaux, also belongs to another tribe, the Teton Sioux, and claims to be a descendant of Chief Crazy Horse through his paternal grandfather, Chief Eagle. Tribal elders dispute the claim, saying Crazy Horse had no children, but Little Sun's mother Armalona Greenfield insists, "Chief Eagle told me, and he would not lie." Greenfield is Jewish, and Little Sun grew...
...picture in modern dress every once in a while. Louis L'Amour, western man, has followed the Duke's example. In his 95th novel, Last of the Breed, he focuses on Joseph Makatozi, a major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait to fresh hunting grounds. In pursuit...
...major news was the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. But the route to Manila last week was a meandering one for viewers of the three network news shows. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather introduced the story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where...