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...treaty commission set up shop in 1875 on the White River-at a site that is now the border between Nebraska and South Dakota-not far from the agencies given to Red Cloud and Spotted Tail by treaty with the U.S. (Agencies were parts of a reservation assigned to an Indian chief and his tribe...
Under the 1868 treaty, the U.S. could not buy the Black Hills unless "three-fourths of all adult male Indians" agreed to a new treaty. When Red Cloud and Spotted Tail pointed this out, the treaty commissioners explained that this applied only to friendly Indians, not to non-reservation Indians like Sitting Bull, who was considered to be at war with the United States...
...years later, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail-now reservation Indians-convinced Crazy Horse to accept his own reservation from the government. Crazy Horse did so reluctantly, aware that reservation life would deprive him of his leadership role...
...ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in Chicago last January. The participants examined 27 "trendsetting" religious communities of a wide variety. They included King's Temple in Seattle (an independent middle-class Pentecostal church), Lighthouse Ranch in California (a prospering Jesus movement commune) and Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vt. (a Tibetan Buddhist meditation community founded...
...miracles, few have intrigued scientists more than the phenomenon of regeneration. The lowly starfish can regrow any missing parts and may even produce an entire creature from a single arm; the salamander can regenerate much of its body. Higher animals, however, lack this ability. Mammals cannot replace a missing tail or internal organs. In man, skin and bone regrowth comes closest to the true regenerative process...