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Transcript: AIM Leader Means Casts Curse on Indians, Braves
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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One of the founders of the American Indian Movement, Russell Means,
has published a new book, an autobiography of his life, in which
he talks about his family, his politics, and about the siege at Wounded
Knee.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: To sports fans last night's opening of the 1995
World Series was a match-up between the two best teams in baseball,
the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. To others, however,
it was the beginning of the politically incorrect World Series.
Outside Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium before the game, American
Indian groups protested the Indian's mascot, Chief Wahoo and the Brave'
s Tomahawk Chop, which they consider ...