From: dmatthews03@sympatico.ca   
      
   "Chris Mark"  wrote in message   
   news:20031101172043.09255.00000114@mb-m12.aol.com...   
   > >Russell Means   
   >   
   > He acted in "Last of the Mohicans," one of my favorite films, and   
   has appeared   
   > in a number of other movies.   
   >   
   > By the way, anyone interested in contemporary (more or less) Indian   
   life might   
   > enjoy reading  "Lame Deer Seeker of Visions" by John (Fire) Lame   
   Deer and   
   > Richard Erdoes.  In this book Lame Deer (Tahca Ushte) tells of his   
   life as a   
   > rodeo clow, solider, sign painter, potato harvester, tribal   
   policeman,   
   > shepherd, jail bird and roadhouse singer.  His greatest line is,   
   "It's hell to   
   > be an Indian."   
   >   
   >   
   > Chris Mark   
      
      
      
   A movie that captures contemporary Indian life on a reservation very   
   well (IMO) is "Thunderheart " with Val Kilmer as an FBI agent of Sioux   
   ancestry who is sent to the reservation to investigate a murder. Based   
   partly on fact there is fictional subplot that is kind of contrived   
   but the details of reservation life are interesting.   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
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