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The Black Hills of South Dakota have long been associated with the four U.S. Presidents who adorn Mount Rushmore. The granite faces of George Washingt...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Powers is the author of several nonfiction works, including The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard...
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Neil Young fans of a certain age and discernment know the significance of Tuesday's concert at the Petersen Events Center.
It's not just Neil Young. It's Neil Young and Crazy Horse, man!
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Neil Young fans of a certain age and discernment know the significance of Tuesday's concert at the Petersen Events Center.
It's not just Neil Young. It's Neil Young and Crazy Horse, man!
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NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Poverty Project (GPP) has announced the Global Festival 2012, a multifaceted event culminating with a free ticketed concert on the Great Lawn of New York's iconic Central Park on September 29, 2012. Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters and The Black Keys will headline, supported by Band of Horses and K'Naan.
The Global Festival, which celebrates achievements made towards eradicating extreme poverty, has been timed to create awareness around the UN General Assembly in New York, when world leaders will convene to debate the Millennium Development Goals and make commitments to end extreme poverty.
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Thomas Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer, is best known for writing about intelligence organizations. His books include "Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda," "Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb" and "The Man Who Kept Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA.
His latest book, "The Killing of Crazy Horse," published by Knopf earlier this month, stems partly from a childhood interest, and partly from a trip he made to Little Bighorn in 1994.
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Marysville author Cleve Walstrom will present "Search for the Lost Trail of Crazy Horse" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site near Republic, according to a Kansas Historical Society news release.
Walstrom, who wrote a book on Crazy Horse, will explore the elusive and mysterious Ogalala Lakota war chief. Many mysteries surround Crazy Horse's life and his assassination, and he ranks among the most notable and iconic of Indian tribal members.
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Changing hands
Crazy Horse restaurant sold in investment sale
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For 20 years, tens of thousands of settlers on the way west passed through Lakota territory every summer. In 1851, the Council of Horse Creek was held with several of the Northern Plains nations and the 'white peace talkers." Nearly 8,000 men, women and children of all the nations gathered around the peace talkers who had inspired so much curiosity because of the way they could so audaciously talk to the Indians as if they were children. The Lakota were amused when the whites wanted to say where the land ended and where it began by drawing a picture on a parched hide. But who, wondered the Lakota, could find that line on the earth itself?
During the council, the Lakota were told that the "great father" in the East would know if his people on the Oregon Trail were harmed. An old Lako...
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CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. -- Some people openly share their wisdom, experience and advice on how to live a full life. But Ruth Ziolkowski, in charge of the world's largest mountain carving, simply leads through example.
The widow of self-taught sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, whose dream it was to honor American Indians by carving the likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in the southern Black Hills, turned 80 June 26.