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IN FEDERAL CUSTODY 1870'S 7. POSTED BY THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTES. >> IT MIGHT SEEM THIS IS A DEEP DEPARTURE.
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| 00:00:28 |
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IT IS NOT THAT DIFFERENT. THE NATURE OF THE EVENTS, HIDDEN IN MUCH THE SAME KIND OF WAY, THE SAME KIND OF REASONS, THE SAME EFFORT TO LIFT UP TO THE...
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| 00:26:48 |
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AT THAT POINT ORGANIZED E RESISTANCE COLLAPSED, AND A PANIC GRIPPED BOTH HALVES OF THESE SOLDIERS, AND THEY WERE DEFEATED. IT WAS JUST, IT WAS SUCH...
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| 00:47:51 |
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ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF CRAZY HORSE'S NAME.
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| 00:47:57 |
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AND IT'S THE WORD FOR HORSE AND HITCO IS THE WORD FOR SOMETHING LIKE CRAZY. BUT NOT CRAZY IN THE SENSE THAT WE MIGHT NORMALLY THINK OF IT AS INSANE OR...
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| 00:49:23 |
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YOU'D HAVE TO ASK RUTH. IT'S A, SHE'S THE WIDOW OF THE MAN WHO STARTED TO CARVE IT BACK IN 1948 OR '49.
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| 00:49:34 |
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IT'S A HUGE UNDERTAKING. IT'S EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. I MEAN, THIS IS A BIG THING TO DO. AND I DON'T THINK THEY'RE IN A HURRY. [LAUGHTER] >> I WAS LOOKING...
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| 00:50:02 |
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AND THAT IS CRAZY HORSE WASN'T KILLED, HE WAS ASSASSINATED. AND I'M WONDERING THE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF USING THAT WORD IN YOUR TITLE OR LOOKED AT IT...
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| 00:50:21 |
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WORD. CROOK, IN MEETING WITH THE OTHER CHIEFS AND WITH LIEUTENANT CLARK, FULLY INTENDED TO ARRANGE HIS ASSASSINATION, HIS MURDER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE...
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| 00:52:19 |
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ALL INDIAN IN HIS WAYS? REMEMBER THE STRANGE MAN OF DIOGALAL, HE DIDN'T DO ANY INDIAN THINGS. HE DIDN'T DO ANY SUN DANCE, HE DIDN'T FIRE HIS RIFLE AS...
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| 00:52:54 |
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FOR THE MOST PART, THOUGHT THAT SITTING BULL HAD BEEN IN CHARGE AND WAS THE MAN WHO HAD WON THE BATTLE WHICH WAS NOT AT ALL TRUE. AND THEN IT ASCRIBED...
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| 00:54:28 |
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NOTICE IS THAT DURING THAT PERIOD
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| 00:54:31 |
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ALMOST ANY INDIAN WHO WAS REMARKABLE IN ANY WAY PEOPLE WOULD SAY, OH, HE MUST HAVE WHITE BLOOD. [LAUGHTER] AND, YOU KNOW? >> WELL, THAT'S TRUE, BUT...
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| 00:54:54 |
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STRANGE. >> AND THE OTHER GUY'S WIFE WHICH THEY GOT MAD ABOUT, AND THEY DIDN'T. THEY WERE STOIC ABOUT IT, AM I RIGHT? >> I WOULD SAY YOU'RE
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| 00:55:03 |
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IN INTERESTING TERRITORY. [LAUGHTER] >> DID WORD OF CRAZY HORSE'S DEATH GET OUT TO THE SIOUX NATION, AND IF IT DID, WHAT WAS THE REACTION OF THE SIOUX...
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| 00:55:14 |
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DEATH? >> HIS STABBING TOOK PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY LARGE AND UNRULY CROWD
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| 00:55:26 |
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FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOVING AND PUSHING, AND VERY FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAW WITH ANY CLARITY WHAT HAPPENED. AND THE WHITES IMMEDIATELY BEGAN SPREADING...
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| 00:57:31 |
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PERSPECTIVE. CRAZY HORSE WAS A GREAT WARRIOR, A GREAT LEADER, BE BUT IN HINDSIGHT WHEN YOU LOOK
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| 00:57:37 |
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AT SITTING BULL, CRAZY HORSE AND RED CLOUD, RED CLOUD HAD RECOGNIZED IN 1868 WHEN HE SIGNED THE FORT LARAMIE TREATY THAT HE COULDN'T WIN. HE COULDN'T...
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| 00:58:15 |
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HERE THAT ARE IMPORTANT. UNDER THE TREATY OF 1868, ALL SIOUX INDIANS WERE ALLOWED TO INHABIT ANY PART OF THE GREAT SIOUX RESERVATION WHICH INCLUDED...
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| 01:02:21 |
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AND IT'S BEEN IN THE MOVIES A LOT. BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S SOME INDIAN REENACTMENT NOW TOO. DID YOU SEE THEM, AND COULD YOU SORT OF COMPARE...
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| 01:02:39 |
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INDIAN REENACTMENTS. THAT'S A NEW THING. PINE RIDGE AND THE OGALLALA HAVE BEEN DOING IT AT PINE RIDGE. THEY DO DO IT OUT AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN, THEY'VE...
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| 01:04:46 |
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MY GRANDMOTHER'S FULL-BLOODED IROQUOIS INDIAN. >> EVERYBODY IN THE UNITED STATES IS PART INDIAN. >> I CAN PROVE IT, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. >>
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| 01:04:55 |
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I BELIEVE YOU. [LAUGHTER] >> BECAUSE IDENTIFY
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| 01:04:57 |
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BEEN UP TO -- I'VE BEEN UP TO CANADA TO THE HOMETOWN WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN. >> YEAH. >>
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| 01:05:03 |
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OKAY? AND THERE WAS BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MILLION
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| 01:05:09 |
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AMERICAN INDIANS WHEN I BURIED MY -- IN WOUNDED KNEE BOOK. >> YEP. >> WILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EVER APOLOGIZE LIKE THE GERMANS HAVE FOR
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| 01:05:25 |
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THE JEWS AND ETC. , WILL THEY EVER APOLOGIZE FOR THE GENOCIDE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN OVER 500 YEARS? AND DON'T TELL ME IT'S NOT A GENOCIDE, BECAUSE I...
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| 01:05:47 |
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I DON'T THINK THAT'S LIKELY TO HAPPEN. >> WHY NOT? >> IF, THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SO DIFFERENT IN EACH CASE, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE IT. IN OTHER...
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| 01:06:01 |
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SORT OF HEAR -- >> YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 65 MILLION BUFFALO. >> THAT'S TRUE, AND THEY HAVEN'T APOLOGIZED TO THE BUFFALO EITHER, BUT THEY'RE SORRY ABOUT...
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| 01:06:13 |
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FULL-BLOOD BECAUSE IF I HAD BEEN, I WOULD HAVE BEEN ALONG WITH CRAZY HORSE, I GUARANTEE
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| 01:06:18 |
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YOU. >> WELL, HE HAD A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH HIM WHO WERE IN A FIGHTING MOOD, BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY ALL DID WHAT HE DID,
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| 01:06:25 |
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THEY ALL CAME IN AND GAVE UP. BY WHICH WHAT THAT MEANT AT THE TIME WAS THEY HAD AGREED TO COME AND LIVE ON A RESERVATION. >> I THINK THAT BALANCE WAS...
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| 01:06:40 |
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KNEE THAT I'VE READ WAS SAND CREEK WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BEFORE THE OTHER ONE. THAT WAS ONE OF YOUR REAL BIG BATTLES IN SAND CREEK. >> WELL, THAT...
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| 01:07:03 |
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NEW? THEY HAD WOUNDED KNEE, THEY WENT OUT AND HAD A GATLIN GUN, AND THEY GOT SCARED BECAUSE
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| 01:07:09 |
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ONE INDIAN STARTED SCREAMING IN THE AIR. >> WELL, THE TWO EXAMPLES YOU'VE JUST CITED ARE ONES I WOULD CERTAINLY AGREE WITH YOU ARE SOMETHING THAT
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| 01:07:19 |
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DESERVES APOLOGY. AND, IN FACT, I THINK -- >> ALL KINDS OF MONEY TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, BUT YOU DON'T SEE THEM GIVING MUCH TO AMERICAN INDIANS. I REST...
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| 01:07:31 |
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CASE. >> LET'S HAVE ONE MORE. >> LAST QUESTION. >> IN YOUR RESEARCH WHAT, WHAT DID YOU -- TO YOU, WHAT WAS THE MOST STARTLING OR SURPRISING
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| 01:07:46 |
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OR MEMORABLE REALIZATION THAT YOU MADE? IN MAKING IT? >> THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS THAT CAME AS A SURPRISE TO ME AND BE A REVELATION. BUT ONE THAT...
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| 01:07:59 |
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WOULD SAY BY FAR, WAS THE COMPLEXITY THAT I FOUND IN LA CODE DA RELIGION AND THE SUBTLETY OF IT AND THE RICHNESS OF IT. THE RICHNESS OF THE POETRY IS...
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| 01:10:31 |
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REMAINED A CONTROVERSY FOR YEARS TO FOLLOW. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE KILLING OF CRAZY HORSE.COM. >> Host: CAPITOL HILL COOKS IS THE NAME OF THE...
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