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...made me very sad when I read that Max Funmaker, a Winnebago Indian, was fined for possessing two dead bald eagles...
Turkey feathers may serve well enough for Boy Scouts in summer-camp loincloth dances, but not for authentic Indians. To Wisconsin's Winnebago tribe, the wingspan of the soaring eagle symbolizes a canopy of protection sent down by a great benefactor...
Such was the argument advanced by the attorney for Max Funmaker, an improbably named Winnebago from Black River Falls, who was charged by federal authorities with the illegal possession of two dead bald eagles, a species even more endangered than the buffalo ever was. Funmaker conceded that he had shot the eagles down-presumably with spiritual intent. It was a somehow unlikely collision of the white man's belated ecological law with an Indian lore that for centuries has taken nature to be sacred. The judge let Funmaker off with a $100 fine...
...more coherent imagery knits together Steve Tesich's play. Lake of the Woods is Western desert land. All that roams over it now is a cartoon of Kit Carson (Will Hussung). The hero, Winnebago (Hal Holbrook), though Indian by name, is really our old friend the emotionally parched middle-aged American. He has wandered into this wasteland thinking it a fisherman's dream. It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter...
...Hanson, his original $10,000 investment in Winnebago has made him a multimillionaire. Anyone who spent $12.50 to buy a share of the public company's common stock in 1965 now has, after numerous splits and dividends, stock worth $2,250. Hanson's holdings have a value of more than $90 million. Despite his wealth, Hanson still lives in the same modest red brick house that he has occupied for 25 years. One goal has eluded him: retirement at 55. Hanson is 56, and he says that running Winnebago is just too enjoyable to give...