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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...public does not understand the alphabet soup of things that are strangling us. The Government, for example, drilled 60 holes while exploring in the federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. Nobody stopped it or interfered. But now that there is discussion about private industry's undertaking the job, there are all kinds of noises about the need for environmental impact statements. We do need Government control, but not this laborious paperwork and red tape that cause such delay...
...Lakota and then back to English to catch Sioux rhythms and emotional tone. Says Sioux Author Vine Deloria Jr. (Custer Died for Your Sins): "How in hell do you type up a manuscript in an ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid the English version...