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Artists depict Wounded Knee massacre,
cupation
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -
Jerry Fogg was just a teenager
when he was handed a gun and
told to help guard the South
Dakota town o f Wounded Knee
during one o f the m ost public
displays o f p ro te s t by th e
A m erican In d ian M ovem ent
nearly four decades ago.
For three days, Fogg joined
about 200 Oglala Sioux mem
bers and their followers as they
occupied and seized the town for
71 days.
“It felt like you were guard
ing a president,” the Yankton
Sioux tribal member who now
resides in Sioux Falls recalled.
“I was told if I was to fire, I
w as to fire over every o n e’s
head.”
Fogg is one o f nearly 25 art
ists — both Native and non-Na-
tive — from around the country
displaying th e ir artw o rk at
Augustana College’s Center for
Western Studies in Sioux Falls
as part o f a first-of-its-kind art
exhibit and show.
“Interpretations o f Wounded
Knee 1973 and 1890” is meant
Creek drawn by a soldier m o
ments before the killings acts as
the bottom layer o f the work.
O n top o f that, there’s another
sheet with the names o f those
who died or were wounded. An
actual broken hoop is placed in
the center, representing the end
o f the N a tiv e ’s freed o m to
choose. Inside the hoop Fogg
shows Chief Spotted Elk fro
zen in the winter cold.
Metal pins represent the 7th
Cavalfy while a small pair o f
moccasins with a hair plume is
in honor o f the children killed.
Thirty-eight 1890 Indian head
pennies line the bottom o f the
piece, with an 1890 silver dollar
in the middle that is m eant to
“give attention to a dreadful time
that should never be forgotten
or repeated,” Fogg wrote in his
artist note.
Fogg sp en t th ree m onths
working on the piece and hopes
it will help remind today’s young
people to remember and honor
the past. ‘Y ou should remem
ber. There’s a story behind ev
ery work,” he said.
to help foster understanding and
build stronger relationships be
tween Natives and non-Natives
as the 40th anniversary o f the
W ounded K nee takeover ap
p ro a c h e s,
said
T im o th y
Hoheisel, director o f Outreach
and Prom otion at The Center
for Western Studies. |
In 1890, the U.S. Army killed
Miniconjou Lakota chief Spot
ted Elk, also known as Big Foot,
and 300 o f his followers, includ
ing women and children, on the
banks o f the W ounded K nee
Creek
“I didn’t do anything to Jerry
Fogg. My ancestors basically
killed his a n c e sto rs,” said
Hoheisel, referring to the 1890
massacre. “By us com ing to
gether with this exhibit, there’s
a chance for reconciliation.”
The exhibit is a prelude to the
an n u al D a k o ta C o n feren ce,
which brings together profes
sional and amateur historians
and researchers to present pa
pers on a particular topic rel
evant to N orthern Plains history.
The theme for this year’s con-
map o f
Wounded Knee
Creek drawn by a
soldier moments
before the killings
acts as the bottom
layer o f the work.
feren ce is “W o u n d ed K n ee
1973: Forty Years Later.” The
event, scheduled for April 27-
28, is bringing together all sides
from the occupation — former
A m erican In d ian M ovem ent
m em bers, federal agents and
prosecutors, and journalists and
bystanders w ho witnessed the
uprising.
“This one has a 'b it o f an
edge to it, as we. anticipated it
would,” said Harry Thompson,
executive director for The-Cen
ter for Western Studies.
This is the first time in the
conference’s 44-year history that
there has been an art show to
Okla. casino review delayed
B R O K E N ARROW, Okla.
(AP) — A review o f engineering
plans for a controversial casino
in Broken Arrow will be delayed,
pardy because questions remain
about whether a tribe can legally
establish the facility at the pro
posed location, city officials said.
Contractor FoxCor Inc. has
submitted an application for a
plan examination and building
perm it to officials, but action
w on’t be taken because o f “sev
eral outstanding factors,” Bro
ken, Arrow City Manager David
Wooden said in a news release.
Factors include easement issues,
as well as, questions regarding
Kialegee Tribal Town’s lease and
legal ability to conduct gaming
there, he said.
Kialegee Tribal Town broke
ground on the proposed Red
Clay Casino in D ecem ber on
land allotted to the Muscogee
Creek N ation, T he Kialegees
are a part o f the Creek Nation,
but are based in Wetumka, miles
from Broken Arrow.
nary injunction on April 11, find
A number o f residents have ing it “untenable and unrealistic.”
opposed the casino, saying it He set the date for May 2.
would be located too close to
A m ong o th e r th in g s, the
schools and a day care. Because judge said the required amount
the property is a Native Ameri o f time hasn’t lapsed for the
can allotment, Wooden wrote, defendants to file their answers
approval from the Bureau o f or anticipated motions to dis
Indian Affairs for the proposed miss them from the case.
easement might be required.
A tto rn e y J o s e p h F a rris ,
City Director o f Communi w ho is re p resen tin g th e tribe
cations Stephanie Higgins said in th e law su it, said he an d
that the city is waiting to see the an o th e r atto rn e y have c o n
resolution of a federal lawsuit flicts w ith th e May date and
filed by Q k lah o fn aA tto rn ey . w ill seek to g et th e hearing
date p u sh ed back. ,
General Scott Pruitt.
P ru itt has accu sed th e
Pruitt’s spokeswoman, Diane
Kialegees o f bypassing a re Clay, said, “we would’ve liked an
quirem ent to get federal ap earlier date, but we can’t con
proval and is seeking a prelimi trol the court's docket.”
nary injunction to have the con
struction stopped. The tribe has
maintained that the bureau’s ap f
The Next dead
proval isn’t necessary and wants
line to submit items
the complaint dismissed.
for publication in
U.S. District Judge Gregory
the Spilyay Tymoo
Frizzell declined Pruitt’s request
is Friday, A p r ill3.
to begin a hearing on the prelimi
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go along with the conference.
Hoheisel said it fit well with this
year's theme.
T h e ex h ib it, w h ich ru n s
through May 26, includes two-
dimensional and three-dim en
sional pieces in v ario u s art
forms.
In one oil-on-canvas painting
b titled “Still H anging on the
Res” by artist Bruce Preheim o f
V erm illion, S.D. — C h rist, a
feather atop his head, is shown
crucified.
“We crucify Christ every day
by n o t d ealing w ith N ativ e
American disparity and rights,”
Preheim wrote in his artist de
scription o f the piece.
R ed pain t covers h alf the
canvas in “Last Stand II (Mas
sacre at W ounded K nee)” by
Sioux Falls a rtis t K ev in
Bierbaum, who is n o t N ative
American. Hoheisel said the red
paint depicts the blood from the
massacre.
In “Archive,” one o f Fogg’s
pieces about the 1890 killings,
the history lies in the details.
A map o f W ounded K nee
Winnings
jump for
LA.
casinos
BATON RO U G E,
La. (A P )F e b ru a ry win
nings fo r L o u isia n a ’s
sta te -lic e n se d casinos
jumped 8.7 percent from
a year ago.
State police say the
twelve riverboat casinos,
H a rra h ’s N ew O rleans
land casino and the three
casinos at race tracks
won $217.2 million, com
pared with $199.5 million
for February 2011. Last
m onth included an extra
day because o f the leap
year.
T he riverboats w on
$151 m illion, the N ew
O rleans casino took in
$28.9 m illion and the
track casinos w on $37.2
million. In J anuary 2012,
the casinos won $185.6
million.
Alaska leaders tackle fetal alcohol issue
A N C H O R A G E , Alaska
(AP) — Morgan Fawcett calls
himself an alcoholic who is
about to celebrate two de
cades o f sobriety— on his
20th birthday.
Even though he is a non
drinker, the Anchorage-bom
Tlingit blames alcohol for a
h ost o f ailments, including
constant headaches, learning
disabilities and constricted
muscles.
H e was born with fetal al
co h o l syndrom e after his
mother drank as much as 100
days during her pregnancy,- he
told Alaska Natives, Ameri
can Indians and others who
gathered T hursday in A n
chorage for a two-day con
ference on fetal alcohol spec4
trum disorders.
“Everybody is affected by
alcohol,” Fawcett said. “N o
body is immune. A nd we all
have to, deal with the effects
every day.”
State officials say Alaska
Natives have greatly brought
dow n the prevalence o f the
m o st severe form o f FASD
among Native newborns— fetal
alcohol syndrome. The rate of
fetal alcohol syndrome, however,
rem ains significantly higher
am ong A laska N atives th an
n on-N ative new borns in the
state.
' Nationally, the incidence o f
FASD is more than two times
greater among indigenous new
borns than in non-Native births,
according to information avail
able fo r a p ro b le m th a t is,
u n derreported in N ative and
non-N ative populations alike,
said Candace Shelton, a senior
Native American specialist with
the federal Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Admin
istration. SAMHSA is the spon
sor o f the conference.
Fawcett, a Native flutist and
advocate for public awareness
o f FASD, -was am ong people
directly affected by fetal alco
hol syndrome who Spoke at the
conference. H e said his goal in
life is to share his story, not be
cause it’s unique but because
it’s comm on and he has the
gift o f public speaking.
“I can come from a place
that offers you the truth as
I know it,” he said.
A n o th e r sp eak er was
Mary A ndrew s o f Bethel,
who said she struggles with
th e an g u ish o f b ein g a
m other to a 14-year-old boy
w ith FASD. “I t was very
hard to talk about at first,”
Andrews said, fighting back
teats. “I was guilty for what
I did to my boy.”
Andrews said a stepson
who had FASD died a few
years ago, at age 20. H e
helped her see how little she
knew about what the condi
tion feels like, she said.
H e helped her deal with
th e challenges o f h er
younger son being different
from his other siblings, who
lose patience with him, call
ing him stupid. “It hits me
hard when I hear him la
beled like that,” she said.
SD Indian population
younger than other groups
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South
Dakota’s American Indian popu
lation is younger than the state’s
overall population, a trend that
has implications for the provi
sion o f education and other ser
vices.
U.S. Census data released last
week shows that nearly 44 per
cent o f South D akota’s Native
American population is 19 or
younger. But only about 25 per
cent o f the state's white popu
lation is 19 or younger.
Michael McCurry, an exten
sion specialist at South Dakota
State University who specializes
in demography, says the large
youth population among Ameri
can Indians has trem endous
implications for education and
other services in the future. He
says it’s part o f a trend o f an
in creasin g A m erican In d ian
population in the state.
The Census Bureau reported
earlier th at American Indians
accounted for 8.8 p ercent o f
South Dakota's population o f
814,180 in 2010.
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