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...Indians over their own land and natural resources. In April next year, ostensibly to settle a Navajo-Hopi land dispute, hundreds of Arizona Navajos will be forced to move--the largest Indian relocation since the 1800s--to make way for a massive strip-mine. In South Dakota, where the Sioux are fighting to prevent uranium mining in the Black Hills, Indian activists have been harassed, jailed, and, sometimes, killed...
...Madison, S. Dak., a gray-haired bicyclist shouted at the candidate: "I'm saving energy, George!" In Sioux Falls, half a dozen strangers greeted him on the street as if he were an old friend. That night, as he walked unobtrusively by the bleachers during a high school football game, teen-agers shouted: "Hey, George!" At 58, George McGovern is probably South Dakota's best-known and, on a personal level, best-liked politician. Nonetheless, this year McGovern is in trouble because many of the same constituents who think he is so personable have decided that...
Gordon Lokke Sioux Falls...
...language barrier is what confounds the average tourist in Moscow. One is reduced to the most basic sounds and gestures to get around the city. Curious pidgin words, rather the way the Sioux talk in old western films, are produced-to no effect whatsoever. My first attempt at a conversation in Russian -just to say that I had tried-was with an elderly fisherman staring morosely at the tiny float of his line in the murk of the Moscow River. I rehearsed behind him, peering into my pocket dictionary, and when I thought I had the word right...
While the western look has cantered around for years, its popularity beyond the prairie is a fairly recent phenomenon. As for the redskin connection, it came not from Sioux or Blackfoot country or even from Seventh Avenue but, curiously, from France, where le peau rouge has always been an object of romantic fascination and, lately, of fashionable imitation. French visitors are among the most avid customers at the growing number of U.S. stores that specialize in such Indian artifacts as beads, bandannas, belts, jewelry and even earrings of mallard, quail and pheasant feathers (available at Manhattan's Tepee Town...