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Petit larceny touches just about everybody once in a
while, and the Indian counselor's office in the
Administration Building was touched last week-end for
a little over $3 in change.
Charlie Archambault, the Standing Rock Sioux from
South Dakota who acts as the UNL counselor, said the
Indian students had been saving up the money to buy a
coffee pot.
"A pretty low character stole that money," said
Archambault.
The Indians aren't shrugging off the small theft. A
medicine man from the Rosebud Sioux reservation in
South Dakota is scheduled to be on campus in the near
future. He will visit Cherokee instructor Webster
Robbins' Teachers College class.
"We're going to ask him to put a hex on whoever
stole that money," said Archambault "That medicine
man has powers even I don't understand."
There certainly aren't many white people, if any,
who understand or respect the medicine man's power.
Not many understand the early childhood dream that
forever set the medicine man apart from the rest of his
tribe, the vision from which he still draws his power.
The only respect most white people have ever
shown toward Native American religions has been has
been expressed in fear, like the fear that prompted the
1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the
massacre that trampled into bloody snow the Indians'
search for a messiah to lead them back to prominence
on the North American continent.
Yet from the U.S. Cavalry to federal land acquisition
to Wounded Knee to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1971, the
Native American religions have endured.
Christians whose forefathers wiped out entire Indian
nations often refer to the durability of their religion.
Indians whose forefathers never even wiped out a whole
herd of buffalo can easily match their religion's record
of trial by fire with Christianity's.
Steve Strasser
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Dear editor,
In a review of Johnny Got His Gun, (The
Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 8) Bill Wallis claims the
horror of the movie is "overdone" to the point
where it becomes "funny" and "ludicrous."
Though this is merely his personal opinion, I
sharply disagree.
The horror of the movie is all too real as is
Johnny's tragic situation. War has produced too
many "Johnnys."
As for the reviewer's contention that the
movie "goes too far" in beating the message
into the audience's heads, I would say no.
People have accepted war for too long. They
need to have the brutality and insanity of it
driven home to them, hard. They need to be
reminded that war is not "Rally 'round the
flags, boys" and heroic glory.
War is horrible and so is the situation in
Johnny Got His Gun. I saw nothing "funny" in
the way it was portrayed.
Jim Pratt
Dear editor,
I am writing in response to Sanford D.
Hutsell's comments on Bob Hope (The Daily
Nebraskan Nov. 4). I agree with several of his
notions. Mr. Hutsell's contention that Bob Hope
is a great humanitarian is the opinion I attack as
being most precarious.
Mr. Hutsell, I too am a graduate of the
Vietnam quagmire. In 1969, I attended one of
Bob Hope's "humanitarian activities" in
Vietnam. Note that I only say "attended" for I
literally didn't see anything. I was so unlucky as
to set myself in the very middle of the
audience, the stage being approximately
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one-hundred and twenty-five yards away. With
the arrival of Mr. Hope, a group of cameramen
simultaneously jumped on a platform in an area
between myself and the stage. The cameras and
men manning them effectively blocked the view
of a small, boisterous, beer-can-throwing
minority behind them.
My point is, Mr. Hutsell, that if Bob Hope is
such a great humanitarian he would have let the
mob rule by letting that boisterous minority
tear down that platform.
From my personal experience, I would say
that Bob Hope was not interested in having his
insatiable ego propogated to the people back
home than entertaining Gl's in Vietnam.
Roger L. Dinges
Dear Governor Exon,
Your action of last week in appointing
members of the Governor's Mexican-American
Commission came as no surprise: it is an
excellent example of the paternalistic manner
in which Chicano people have been treated in
this country.
We strongly protest your
appointments-not because we question the
integrity or the abilities of the men you
chose--but rather because of the manner in
which you made these decisions, almost
completely ignoring the will of the Chicano
citizens of this state speaking through the
Nebraska Coalition of La Raza.
Ralph F. Grajeda, Coordinator,
Nebraska Chicano Awareness Centers
Simon Orta, Chairman
President's Committee on
Mexican-American Affairs UNL
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
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