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Betwixt and between, Berger-Crabb is a spellbinding storyteller with a fine feel for frontier manners and morals and for fascinating Indian lore. And why didn't the Sioux scalp Custer? Jack Crabb knows (because he was there): Custer was getting bald...
Flatly refusing to discuss autonomy for the montagnards, Khanh said to an American: "That would be like your Sioux Indians seceding from America." But Khanh allowed that the tribes men's "righteous aspirations" - for better schools and medical facilities, tribal representation at the top government level, replacement by Americans of all Vietnamese officers in their training camps - would be met. Even so, the restive montagnards still remained a major threat...
...KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The dilemma of a small group of Sioux Indians unable to decide whether to leave the reservation...
...president of the American Fur Co., Astor ruled the closest thing to a private empire ever established in America. Most of the fur-trading tribes -the Winnebagos, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Sioux-were in perpetual hock to him, and they had a habit of going into battle with medals bearing his likeness strung about their necks. Astor's puffy face, in fact, was thought to be a more powerful talisman than a scalp or even a medicine bonnet...
...against Boston's birth date of 1630. History Buff Kennedy pulled at least two other historical gaffes. Speaking of Chancellor Adenauer, he said: "Two years after his birth [in 1876], General Custer and 500 of his cavalry were to be wiped out by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians." Custer actually made his last stand in 1876. Later, addressing the Irish Parliament, Kennedy presented the Irish Republic with a Civil War battle flag of the Irish Brigade. The brigade, said he, fought at Fredericksburg, Md., on Sept. 13, 1862. The date was actually...