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  • The deer-hide war shirt, with locks of human hair dangling from its chest, belonged to Chief Black Bird of the Oglala Sioux.

    At Auction: Sioux Shirt Woven Into History 2011

  • Warne, a member of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota, is a college professor in California.

    Indian leaders cry foul over bin Laden 'Geronimo' nickname 2011

  • Sotheby's Sotheby's wants as much as $350,000 for this war shirt that once belonged to Oglala Sioux Chief Black Bird.

    At Auction: Sioux Shirt Woven Into History 2011

  • Back then water depths over 1,000 feet were considered deep-drilling, and the rush to ultra-deep drilling was just getting under way with new tension leg platforms and giant water filled spar platforms to aid stability and semisubmersible platforms like the five-billion dollar stadium-sized Thunder Horse platform (originally named Crazy Horse, until the Oglala Sioux nation objected) that was knocked off-kilter by Hurricane Dennis in June 2005.

    David Helvarg: Waiting on the Revolution 2010

  • But as an Oglala Sioux he was also a raider, and raiding meant certain very specific things, including the abuse of captives.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • I remember Charley Reynolds, who was as good a scout as ever lived, telling me how he'd marked down a band as Arapaho by an arrow they'd fired at him-he found out later they'd been Oglala Sioux, and the arrow had been pinched from a Crow.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • It is easy to see why people are still fascinated by the Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse.

    Tricked, trapped and defeated Post 2010

  • It is easy to see why people are still fascinated by the Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse.

    Tricked, trapped and defeated Post 2010

  • A good one, I think, was Black Elk, a wachasha wakon, a holy man of the Oglala Sioux, who was born in 1863.

    Native American Indian Prophecies 2009

  • In response to the South Dakota abortion ban, Cecilia Fire Thunder, President of the state's Oglala Sioux tribe, has said that she "will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction."

    Feministing: Activism Archives 2009

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