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Page It THE HERALD Wednesday JanniryS Arts Ideas Dances with Wolves a remarkable work My choice for best film of the year is Kevin Costners Dances with Wolves This remarkable work of movie art is a belated monument to the Sioux and their Indian Nation in North Dakota The Sioux were nomads who followed the buffalo in their seasonal wanderings The buffalo provided the Sioux with meat with leather for their garments and tents and even with heat The droppings of the plentiful beasts were gathered and used as the fuel of campfires The Indians also venerated the buffalo as a link between nature and the gods It didn t take the white people very long to destroy this founda tion of Sioux culture The animals that moved over the grasslands in huge herds a hundred miles in diameter were killed off by the millions by professional hunters to provide food for thousands of workers who put down the tracks for the transcontinental railway Before the free life of the Sioux came to an end they managed to humiliate the United States Government by forcing them in 1868 to sign a contract that spell ed out the abandonment of three forts named Fort Phil Kearny Fort C F Smith and Fort Reno The retreating soldiers had to watch the burning of these forts by the Indians and to top it all off the victorious chief Red Cloud was received by President Ulysses S Grant in the White House as an equal John Sommer For the Sioux the respite did not last long An expedition discovered gold in Sioux territory and mobs of gold diggers moved into the land that had been pro mised to the Sioux to be theirs for eternity the Indians re mained unprovoked however with the result that General George Armstrong Custer took the initiative His army units invaded Sioux territory and on June 25 the Sioux under the leadership of their great chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Custer s 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn River None of the 250 in vaders returned home but the fabric of Sioux society was weakened beyond repair Pursued robbed of their source of food and therefore starving the remaining Sioux eventually entered the reserves the white man had grudgingly put aside for them The reserves were in reality prisons in which these once pro ud people languished in increas ing despair and hopelessness Sit ting Bull the last great hero of his people tried in unflinching opposition to the white man way of life to collect other dissidents around him An attempt by the police to kid nap him and to remove him from his people resulted in Sitting Bulls death by assassination on Dec 1890 Traumatized by Sitting Bulls death and fearing military ac a group of Indians under the leadership of their chief Big Foot left the reserve near the Cheyenne River to walk to Pme Ridge where they hoped to come under the protection of chief Red Cloud Two thirds of the fleeing Indians were women and children The United States Army stop ped he ragged band and brought them to a camping place called Wounded Knee soldiers sur rounded the Indians and on December 29 some of them entered the camp looking for weapons The majority of the In remained calm but one young Sioux resisted when he was told to hand over his gun In the resulting scuffle a shot was fired and a soldier was killed Within seconds all the soldiers surrounding the camp started fir killing everybody who mov ed and pursuing fleeing women Edmonton artist wins national sculpture competition Edmonton artist Catherine Burgess has won Stewart Art Centres Na ttonal Sculpture Competition sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Limited The announcement was made on December 2nd by the Honorable Pauline Chair of DuMaurier Arts Limited and Honorary Chair of the Art Centres Sculpture Park Fund Burgess s sculpture will be the to be permanently installed in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park Mr Wilmat Tennyson President of Imperial Tobacco Ltd was in attendance and ex pressed his company committ to this community through its sponsorship of the Sculpture Park Imperial Tobacco Ltd which has previously sponsored the commissions of three other sculptures In the Park will con tribute toward this com mission Burgess s proposed sculpture is a table shape upon which several simple objects are ed As Burgess explains The forms of these objects their placement and their inter relationships result in abstract sculptures which also function as personal narratives autobiographical in their nature The title of the proposed sculpture GUELPH SEPTEMBER 27 1990 refers to a day which the artist spent visiting Guelph this fall The sculpture will be cast m bronze at Inc in Georgetown and will measure approximately inches high by feet seven in ches long by 27 inches wide Catherine Burgess has been ex her steel and bronze sculpture for over ten years a solo exhibition of her recent work is currently on view at the Ed Art Gallery This will be her first outdoor sculpture The other pieces in the Sculpture Park collection include works by Cynthia Short Eloul Walter Bachinski Andreas Drenters and Frances Gage and two historical bronzes by Frances and Florence Wyle Also included are the com missions by competition win Tony Urquhart and Robert and 1988 competition win Evan Penny CORRECTION In a recent advertisement for Final Touch Esthetics The Herald tly printed that this establishment was open for business Jan 1 and 2 when fact It was closed The Herald apologias to any Final Touch Esthetics clients who were incon venienced by this error Passive Reducing Salon Suntan Sessions 10 for 1 FREE SESSION TANNING TONING Facials Eltctrolyiii MakiUp Manicure Ear Sun Tanning Waxing 8734013 Tin Indoor NEW ADDITION IT1B Welcome hostess She will bring congratulations and gifts tor family and the NEW BABY and children for miles killed The massacre lasted a good These events are the heritage thirty minutes and as many we are still living with exactly 300 of the Sioux might have been years later ill J DIRECTORY DENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE 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