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...City. He remained a cavalryman at heart. Ages later, he tells his grandson that the spot where he will be buried affords a good view of Washington, D.C. The author writes: "Rustlers and stage robbers had been the objects of his patrols and not the pitiful remnants of the Sioux and Cheyenne. But the views were still important: the views of Jackson's Hole and the Tetons, or of the old Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site...
...spotty athletic history, Billy Mills, now 44, came from nowhere to win the 10,000-meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. In the long tradition of turning athletic accomplishment into movie magic, Mills' story is being beamed to the screen in Running Brave. (Mills is a Sioux Indian; running brave, get it?) For the movie, due out next year, Actor Robby Benson, 26 (The Chosen), ran five miles a day for three months. "Runners have a certain look about them," says Benson, "and there's no way to cheat that...
That deal has stirred up considerable controversy. South Dakota's Sioux Indians, citing old claims to the water, are contemplating a suit against the state to stop the sale. So are two downriver states, Missouri and Nebraska. Others may join in. At the Midwest Governors meeting, which unanimously passed a resolution calling on Congress to leave the region's water riches under control of the states, Iowa Governor Robert Ray denounced South Dakota's action as a neighbor's breach of faith. Said he: "What bothers me most is not the amount [to be] diverted, which...
Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir is at once a glorious success story and a seeming fairy tale From a humble Midwestern south in Sioux Falls, N.D., Fairbank soared through stints at Exeter. Wisconsin Harvard and Oxford, breezing academics and keeping a quirky sort of perspective on his meteoric intellectual development. I broke the cadence and entered Wisconsin instead of Harvard. This was partly because coeducation appealed to me. I knew how to study. What else was there...
During the summer, Barbara lives off her savings and the welfare checks she receives from the federal government. In the fall, when the weather turns cold and her savings are depleted, she returns to her job in an electronics factory in North Carolina. Like many off-reservation Sioux, though, she says she feels caught between the Sioux and the off-reservation white culture, wanting neither to sever her ties with the reservation nor to return to the reservation and live permanently on welfare...