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...with the haunting wraiths in the background, the remnants of the once-proud owners of the land. Troell's flair for faces shows poignantly in the aged, starving Indian women begging a scrap of meat from a frightened, guilty white woman. A narrator describes the oppression of the local Sioux tribes by the U.S. government as desperate Indians take to the warpath seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside the blond...
...high as $9 per bu., almost five times as much as a year earlier. The Department of Agriculture estimates that farmers' overall net income this year will total $25 billion, up more than $5 billion from 1972, which was a year of record prosperity. Exclaims Junaida Dibbet of Sioux Center, Iowa: "I'll tell you how good a year this is! We've been farming for 30 years, and we finally remodeled our house." Adds her husband Richard: "Got me a tractor too, with air conditioning and a radio...
...Sioux Falls...
...Leverett House and Chappaqua, N.Y.: Michael J. Kaplan of Mather House and Northport, N.Y.; R. Michael Kaus of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif.; David C. Kibbe of Eliot House and Hudson, Ohio; Hillel J. Kieval of Peabody Terrace and Auburndale; David A. Koplow of Winthrop House and Sioux Falls, S.D.; William H. Lohman of Quincy House and Providence, R.I.; Wayne H. McGuire of Dudley House and Somerville; and, Jerry A. Menikoff of Dunster House and Massapeque Park...
...last week's shootout, both the federal forces and the insurgents holding the village exchanged fire with armed vigilante groups formed by disgruntled Wounded Knee residents who have been ousted by the militant occupation. There is strong reason to suspect that the vigilantes are displaced Oglala Sioux hoping to end the siege, but Tribal Council President Richard Wilson denies any involvement by his followers...