Sunday, June 22, 2025

Conquering Bear, Sioux

 


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  1. Remember Eddie Little Sky, an actor from the '50s, '60s and '70s Westerns? He was Oglala Dakota. When he retired, he and his wife Dawn Little Sky, who also acted, returned to the reservation where he worked for the Tribal Parks and Recreation Authority.
    He was encouraged to get into acting by Audie Murphy.
    I always admired Eddie both as a person and as an actor.

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    1. I'll look them up.

      and: pipestone
      Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite. Because it is fine-grained and easily worked, it is prized by Native Americans, primarily those of the Plains nations, for use in making ceremonial pipes, known as chanunpas (Lakota: čhaŋnúŋpa). Pipestone quarries are located and preserved in Pipestone National Monument outside Pipestone, Minnesota, in Pipestone County, Minnesota, and at the Pipestone River in Ontario, Canada.

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    2. There is a quarry in N. AZ too.

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