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Article: State sues over wronged Sioux. (ban on Crazy Horse malt liquor)
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- Insight on the News
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- January 22, 1996
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Tasunko Witko--better known as Crazy Horse--was no friend of the white man. A l9th-century leader of the Oglala Sioux, the Indian chief shunned the ways of the paleskinned invaders, refusing to sit for portraits and inveighing against the damage inflicted on his people by the adoption of their conqueror's pernicious custom of drinking alcohol.
Now Minnesota has invoked a 1994 law that prohibits the use of "false or misleading [characterizations of] a living or dead American Indian leader" in advertising to ban the sale of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor. Michael S. Jordan, commissioner of the Minnesota Public Safety Department, says the state law applies because Crazy Horse ...