Musical updates interpretation of Chief Sitting Bull

From: Ojibwe News, The | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: Fields, Cheryl Lewis | Copyright information


Ojibwe News, The

09-01-2000

Musical updates interpretation of Chief Sitting Bull

The new more politically correct version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun
will blow onto center stage at The Historic Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis,
September 5-10. Winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival,
Irving Berlin's legendary musical stars Marilu Henner, with Larry Storch
(formerly of TV's F Troop) as Chief Sitting Bull.

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The Stirring and Tragic Life of Sitting Bull
Chicago Sun-Times ; Who was Sitting Bull? Was the most famous Native American of history a cowardly pretender who fled the fight on the Little Bighorn? Was he an obstinate savage whose finest moment was as a circus Indian with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show? Or was he a Napoleonic messiah, a military genius and savior
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; For more than a century, Sitting Bull has symbolized Native American defiance of the United States government. In the 1870s, he became famous in newspapers nationwide as the leader of hostile Sioux tribes in the northern Great Plains and the conqueror of Gen. George Custer. In the 1990s, his stern
Sitting Bull's biographer finds man behind legend
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ... Jackie Loohauis-Bennett is a Journal Sentinel reporter. Copyright 2008, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved. (Note: This notice does not apply to those news items already copyrighted and received through wire services or other media.)
Sitting Bull, in Focus
The Billings Gazette ; Sitting Bull didn't come to Montana to fight at the Little Bighorn, says his great-grandson, Ernie LaPointe. The great Sioux spiritual leader and former war hero came to dance. With others who had rejected treaties that confined them to reservations, the Hunkpapa sun dancer was following an ancient
Sitting Bull ancestor visits Jessup
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle ; By Becky Orr borrr@wyomingnews.com CHEYENNE - Art is as much a part of William Sitting Bull as breathing and eating. The gift has always been his. When he was a little boy, he would draw in the dirt. Or he would go to bed at night and draw in the air. "My brother told me to knock it off," he said
Restoring dignity to Sitting Bull, wherever he is
International Herald Tribune ; Dan Barry International Herald Tribune 01-29-2007 Here, on a snow-dusted bluff overlooking the Missouri River, rests Sitting Bull. Or so it is said.Stand before the monument and see the pocks left in the granite by bullets. Notice where the nose was replaced after vandals with chains and a truck
The last stand of Sitting Bull Great-grandchildren of the Sioux leader are fighting a plan to turn his grave into a tourist attraction
The Sunday Telegraph London ; ON AN isolated bluff of prairie grassland overlooking the mighty Missouri river, a weather-beaten stone bust marks the final resting place of Sitting Bull, the legendary Lakhota Sioux tribal leader and warrior. The vista has changed little since his day, but this peaceful spot on South Dakota's
EDITORIAL: Restoration of Sitting Bull monument good: OR Sitting Bull restoration good.
American News (Aberdeen, SD) ; ... the site that South Dakota supports and respects its history. Copyright (c) 2006, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550 ...
His Last Stand?; Landowners, Family Battle Over the Final Resting Place For Chief Sitting Bull
The Washington Post ; You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond. The drive from Mobridge across the river takes you from the Central Time Zone into the Mountain, and if you turn off
Battle Over Memorializing Sitting Bull; Control of Sioux Chief's Legacy at Stake as Plans for Monument Complex Take Shape
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