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Leading Eagle of Sioux Tribe for a Month
Hibbings AP report recounts a writer who becomes Chief Leading Eagle in the Sioux tribe during a Hot Springs festival. He recalls mock ceremonies, tourist banter, jokes about pensions and insurance, and the debt of mixed identity. He notes poverty on the reservation, bead shortages, and the humor and frustration of tribal life under modern pressures.
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Leading Eagle
Hal Boyle
Hibbing
Minn
Paleface
Feichman
Hot Springs
Curie
Ben Américan Horses
Elks
Moose
Czechoslovakia
Washington
Custer
Standing Bear
Rapid City
S. C
Daily Journal
Calvin Coolidge
Black Hills
Coolidge
Eagle
Standing