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Russell Means was born an Oglala/Lakota Sioux Indian. He was the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in which role he became prominent during the 1973 standoff with the U.S. government at Wounded Knee. In 1987, he joined the U.S. Libertarian Party and announced his candidacy for the party's presidential nomination. (He lost the nomination to Congressman Ron Paul). Since 1992, Means has appeared in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994) and other movies. He has championed the rights of indigenous peoples in other countries as well as the U.S. In a televised speech to the 2000 Libertarian Party National Convention, Means said that he prefers the label "Indian" to the more politically-correct "Native American". "Everyone who is born in America is a native American", he said.- Actor
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Bobby Buntrock was born on 4 August 1952 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Hazel (1961), Burke's Law (1963) and Bus Stop (1961). He died on 7 April 1974 in Keystone, South Dakota, USA.- Actor
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Oglala Lakota, born Edsel Wallace Little Sky on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. Eddie served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Tall (at 6 ft, 2") and muscular, he was subsequently employed as an oil field wildcatter and then toured the rodeo circuit with Casey Tibbs' American Wild West Show & Rodeo as a bull and bareback bronco rider. He entered films as a stuntman in the early 50s. By the middle of the decade, Eddie was playing Native American chiefs and braves and eventually amassed a portfolio of more than 60 film credits and numerous TV episodes -- often as a featured player rather than a mere extra. Among his better known roles was that of Black Eagle in A Man Called Horse (1970). Eddie and his wife Dawn Little Sky moved to Los Angeles in 1959, but they never regarded this as their true 'home'. "Phasing out the Hollywood era", as Dawn called it, they returned to South Dakota in 1975 whereupon Eddie worked as director of the Oglala Lakota Tribal Parks and Recreation Authority. Both Eddie and Dawn were also well known for their accomplishments as exponents of traditional dance, having toured both Europe and Japan and performed before royalty.- Her mother, Patsy Linn Compton, was a Cherokee Native American and her father, John R. O'Neil, an oil wildcatter, was Irish. They were married on October 20, 1940 in Wharton, Texas, USA. Kitty was born on March 24, 1946 in Nueces, Texas, USA. Shortly after her birth her father died in an airplane accident.
Kitty developed normally as an infant until she was five months old. She lost her hearing when she was struck by measles, mumps, and smallpox all at the same time. Patsy decided that Kitty should be home schooled, preparing for that task by taking education courses at The University of Texas. Her mother's goal was realized in terms of Kitty learning to speak normally and become proficient at speech (lip) reading. Kittys brother, John O'Neil III, was born on May 1, 1947.
Patsy attended university classes while raising two small children. By the age of eight Kitty was able to be enrolled in a regular public school third grade. Her mother taught many deaf children and was a founder of The Listening Eyes School for the Deaf in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. Kitty learned to play the cello by sensing subtle changes in the frequency of the vibrations.
At the age of twelve Kitty joined a swim team. That led to developing an interest in diving. As a substitute for a diver who failed to show up, Kitty, who had never previously dived, won the first place medal. Six months later she had won the AAU Southwest District Junior meet. In 1962 Kitty's family moved to Anaheim, California, USA so she could train as a diver with nationally known diving coach, Sammy Lee. She spent four hours a day in the water. American Youth Magazine named her Youth Athlete of the Month. She won the 10 meter diving event at the 1964 AAU Nationals and was on her way to the qualifying heats for the Olympic Games.
Her diving career ended abruptly when she broke her wrist while diving, followed by a bout with spinal meningitis. For a time there was concern that she might lose the use of her legs, but Kitty persevered in getting back on her feet. Loving speed and competition Kitty moved to high speed water skiing. In 1970 she set the official women's water ski speed record, 104.85 miles per hour.
It seemed a natural progression to automobile racing and cross country motorcycle racing. It was an accident at a motorcycle race where she was aided by a fellow racer, Duffy Hambleton, that their relationship began. He accompanied her to the hospital and was unexpectedly put in the position of making medical decisions that enabled Kitty's two severed fingers to be reattached in a curved position during four hours of surgery. The therapy that followed enabled full left hand function, so complete that Kitty was again able to play the piano.
Duffy and Kitty lived on a ten acre citrus farm. He worked with her daily with voice modulation. Kitty would touch his throat and feel his normal vocal vibrations and then match them using her own voice. The constant goal was to reduce the high pitch that typifies deaf speech. It was Duffy that introduced Kitty to the world of doing movie stunts. Stunts Unlimited, an organization of Hollywood's top stunt performers, accepted Kitty O'Neil into membership in 1976. She was the first woman to be so honored.
In December 1976 Kitty shattered the world land speed record for women. At a dry lake bed (Alford Lake) in southeast Oregon, USA she averaged 512.70 miles per hour, bettering the old mark by over 200 miles per hour. She had driven a 48,000 horsepower rocket-powered vehicle named The Motivator designed by Ky MIchaelson, Rocketman Enterprises, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
For a 1977 NBC Special about the world's best stunt men and women Kitty tipped over a burning van, ran with her clothes on fire, and then fell seven stories over the parapet of a parking garage. The filming of the sheets of fire going over the van required Kitty to remain in the van as firemen doused the flames. The stunt crew then pulled off the windshield to extricate Kitty who was still strapped in the seat of the overturned van. In 1979 her accomplishments were the basis for a Hollywood movie, "Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story," starring Stockard Channing as Kitty. Duffy Hambleton was an executive producer and many of the stunts were done by the real Kitty O'Neil.
Kitty retired in 1986, moved from Elk River, Minnesota, USA in 1993 to Eureka, South Dakota, USA where she lives with her long time companion, Raymond Waid. When asked why she retired she said it was not because of fear, but because two friends had been killed while performing stunts. Why Eureka? Kitty loves the peace she feels at her home overlooking Lake Eureka. Kitty has devoted much of her time to supporting the American Cancer Society's efforts in the battle against breast cancer. Not a victim of the disease herself, Kitty volunteers her time and image to promote the cause and encourages women to be screened and receive mammograms every year after the age of forty. - A Sicangu Lakota (Sioux) who spent most of his life on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Ted Thin Elk saw very few movies in his lifetime, and was 72 when he got his first role as "Grandpa Samuel Reaches" in the film Thunderheart (1992). Contrary to his bad boy reputation, Val Kilmer treated the septuagenarian first-time actor with deference and helped him with his scenes in front of the camera. When the camera wasn't rolling, the two could be found discussing Native American topics in general and Lakota ones in particular.
Ted Thin Elk was accorded a "First Americans in the Arts" award in 1992, the first year the honor was awarded. He was a highly respected elder on the Rosebud Reservation and was a member of the Sicangu Treaty Council and the Grey Eagle Society. - Additional Crew
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Smith Wordes was born on 18 September 1955 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), The Edge (1997) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). She died on 19 October 2020 in Sinai, South Dakota, USA.- Actor
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Rex McNicol Robbins was an American character actor of stage and screen. He played the Narrator/Mysterious Man in the first national tour of Into the Woods. Robbins appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in the 1974 Broadway revival of Gypsy. He made his Broadway debut in 1963 as the doctor in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and subsequently went on to play roles in over 30 plays and films. He also starred with John Lithgow in several British plays, including The Changing Room (1973) and Comedians (1976) and was directed by Lithgow in Boy Meets Girl (1976) based on the 1938 film of the same name. He replaced David Ogden Stiers in the long-running Doug Henning musical The Magic Show. In 1972, he played the role of Roger Sherman in the film version of the musical 1776. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Urban Blight at Manhattan Theatre Club, A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room at Playwrights Horizons and Henry IV, Part I at the Public Theater. His last stage appearance was as Mr. Brown in the musical adaption of James Joyce's The Dead in 2000. He is most remembered for portraying an openly gay bartender in Shaft.
His last film was a brief appearance in The Royal Tenenbaums. Robbins was born in Pierre, South Dakota, to Lucy Geraldine (McNichol), who worked in journalism, and Clarence Edward Robbins, a doctor. He was an alumnus of Yale University and was married with three children. Robbins died of a stroke on September 23, 2003, at age 68.- Robert Little Star was born in 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Little Big Man (1970). He died in 1999 in Vermillion, South Dakota, USA.
- George McGovern, one of the leading liberals in U.S. politics, was born in a Republican household in a small South Dakota town. His family had some struggles during the Great Depression, but they were able to make ends meet. The young, idealistic man joined the Air Force during World War II and became a bomber pilot. He served with great bravery, flying missions over North Africa and Italy, bombing German military targets, and won citation for his duty. Upon returning home, he graduated from college and became a college teacher, teaching history. Up to that point, he had been relatively non-political, as had his parents. That changed in 1952, when he heard a speech by the Democratic nominee, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, and was so inspired by it that he volunteered for the Stevenson campaign. Stevenson lost to retired General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but McGovern remained active in politics, becoming Chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Democrats were very much the minority in the state, but McGovern pursued his duties with great zeal, and in 1956 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in an upset, helped by growing dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower administration in the rural Midwest. He was reelected in 1958 and in 1960, was an enthusiastic backer of Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. That same year, McGovern took a gamble by running against Republican U.S. Senator Karl Mundt, who had first been elected in 1948. Although he ran well ahead of what Democrats usually did in the state, he fell short, as Mundt won by a 52% to 48% margin. In 1961, Kennedy appointed McGovern Director of the Food For Peace program, and McGovern was greatly affected by his service in this capacity.
In 1962, McGovern ran for the U.S. Senate again (each state has two U.S. Senators), this time in an open race. He was considered the underdog against Republican Governor Joe Bottum, but managed to win by 597 votes, one of the closest U.S. Senate races in state history. He immediately became one of the Senate's most liberal members, enthusiastically supporting the domestic policies of Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. His major accomplishment was creation of the Food Stamp program, which was to provide Federal food assistance to impoverished people. But he became increasingly focused on overseas and military affairs. He became an opponent of the growing American involvement in Vietnam and opposed maintaining a large military. In 1968, he was a leading supporter of Robert F. Kennedy and was horrified by the latter's assassination. He was also appalled by the Chicago Police Force's rough treatment of anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that same year. He was reelected easily that year, winning 57% of the vote. After Richard Nixon took office, McGovern quickly became a proponent of immediate withdraw of all military forces form Vietnam. In 1969, he chaired the commission which instituted reforming the way the Democratic Party nominated its Presidential candidates, dramatically reducing the role of party leaders and political insiders.
In 1972, McGovern launched a campaign for President. He was given little chance of winning his party's nomination, which seemed to be united around U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. However, Muskie's campaign foundered and McGovern ran a close second to Muskie in the Presidential primary in New Hampshire. Helped by his campaign manager, Gary Hart (later a Senator and Presidential candidate himself), McGovern won several other primaries and the nomination. His campaign theme was "America, come home." His main platform, aside from withdraw from Vietnam, was a 37% reduction in defense spending and a guaranteed minimal income for all Americans. At the convention in Miami, he initially won praise for nominating U.S. Senator 'Thomas Eagleton' of Missouri as his running mate. But his campaign was rocked when it was revealed that Eagleston had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward many years before. McGovern initially claimed that he was "1000 percent" behind Eagleston, but later his campaign staff persuaded Eagleston to drop out of contention. This made McGovern look bad to his most idealistic supporters and haunted him throughout the campaign. Ultimately, former Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver replaced Eagleston as his running mate, but the damage was done. Throughout the campaign, he was perceived by the public as a well-meaning but fuzzy minded radical leftist. Taking advantage of McGovern's support for amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers, decriminalizing abortion, and ending Federal drug laws (leaving them to the individual states), Vice President Spiro Agnew labeled McGovern the candidate of "amnesty, abortion, and acid," and the label stuck. The Nixon campaign successfully portrayed McGovern as a pacifist and socialist who would endanger national security, wreck the economy, and bankrupt the government. In the election, McGovern lost overwhelmingly. Nixon out-polled him by 61% to 37%, with a plurality of 18 million votes, a record that has yet to be broken. The only state McGovern won was Massachusetts. His only consolation was that a friend and political ally, Congressman James Abourezk, was elected to the South Dakota's other U.S. Senator.
Following the loss, McGovern returned to his Senate duties. Following Nixon's resignation in disgrace in the wake of the Watergate scandal in 1974, he seemed to have been vindicated in his attacks on Nixon's ethics. However, later that year, he had a surprisingly difficult reelection bid, winning by less than expected against a former Vietnam War prisoner, who felt that McGovern had prolonged his captivity. There were many Demcorats elected that year, and McGovern worked closely with them to cut defense spending and reign in intelligence agencies. He also worked to expand government benefits. He was encouraged when Democrats won the White House with the narrow election of former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. But his friend and ally Abourezk was forced to retire in the face of impending defeat in 1978 and polls indicated that McGovern was losing support there, as well. In 1980, McGovern was challenged for reelection by Republican Congressman James Abdnor. While campaigning that year, McGovern ran into two women who angrily complained about his support for defense cuts, then bought some groceries with food stamps. He later remarked that he knew he wouldn't be reelected at that moment. He was right. On election day, Abdnor defeated McGovern by a landslide.
Following his departure from elective office, he was a professor at the University of New Orleans. In 1984, he made a whimsical, late-entering candidacy for President, and narrowly won the primary in Massachusetts, but as expected, lost the nomination to former Vice President Walter Mondale. Also a candidate, and a more successful one, was his former campaign manager, Gary Hart, who won several primaries, although losing the nomination to Mondale. That year, however, then President Ronald Reagan, whose policies McGovern fervently opposed, was reelected by a landslide, nearly as large as Nixon's 1972 margin. For many years, he largely stayed out for the limelight. He went into the motel business, but the business ultimately foundered and he was forced to fold. McGovern later admitted in late 1990, "I wish I had had a better sense of what it took to [meet a payroll] when I was in Washington." In 1991, he surprised nearly everyone when he supported President George Bush's campaign to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, which culminated in The Persian Gulf War. McGovern defended this by claiming that Hussein was a great threat to the entire region. In 1994, he was hit with personal tragedy when one of his daughters, Teresa, died of exposure while intoxicated. She had been an alcoholic for many years who had been unable to overcome the addiction. McGovern became involved in helping the relatives of alcoholics. In 1998, President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, a post he held until 2001.
In more recent years, he has become an advocate for the withdraw of U.S. troops from Iraq. - Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) holy man and war chief, was born in 1831 near the Grand River in what is now the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was named after his father, who was killed by Crow warriors--the Crow tribe being a longtime enemy of the Lakota--in an ambush. In the mid-1860s, during what became known as Red Cloud's War, Sitting Bull led the Sioux in a series of attacks on US Army posts and civilian wagon trains in the Powder River area of the Dakotas. Although other Indian tribes signed a peace treaty with the US government ending the war in 1868, Sitting Bull refused to and continued his attacks on military and civilian targets into the 1870s. He attacked crews building railroads across the Indian territory and miners who were panning for gold in the Black Hills, an area sacred to the Sioux. His attacks prompted the US government to send federal troops to the area, under the command of Col. George Armstrong Custer, to stop them. In 1875 the US Interior Department ordered all Sioux living outside the area known as The Great Sioux Reservation to move onto it, and any who did not would be declared "hostile" and could be forcibly removed to the reservation. Rather than persuading Indians to follow the Department's orders, this policy resulted in several tribes previously hostile to each other, such as the Cheyenne and Kiowa, to unite in alliance with the Sioux against the army, although many chiefs who had previously fought the army--such as Red Cloud, Gall and Spotted Tail--decided it was in their best interests to take their followers and live on the reservation.
In 1875 the Cheyenne and several Sioux clans joined forces to resist the army's attempts to place them on the reservation. They used Sitting Bull's camp as their main assembling point, as did many other Indians who had bolted from the reservation. As more and more Indians arrived the camp expanded in size, until there were an estimated 16,000 Indians living there. It was this camp that Custer stumbled across on June 25, 1876. His attack on the camp, and the subsequent defeat and annihilation of his command, became known as the Battle of the Little Big Horn, named for the river that ran through the camp. Contrary to popular opinion, however, Sitting Bull had nothing to do with the defeat of Custer's forces--his task was to organize a defense of the camp, and it was other chiefs who led the counterattack on Custer.
Custer's defeat led the US army to assign thousands of troops to the area to track down and capture Sitting Bull, and over the next year or so many Sioux chiefs surrendered their bands due to the intense pressure from the army. Sitting Bull, however, refused to surrender and in 1877 led his band across the border into Canada, where he knew the US army could not reach him. However, conditions in Canada deteriorated for the Indians, with cold and hunger taking their toll. On July 19, 1881, he crossed back into the US and led his band of nearly 200 Indians to Fort Buford, South Dakota, and surrendered. Initially taken to Fort Yates, near the Standing Rock Reservation, Sitting Bull's band was transferred to Fort Randall, where they were kept for almost two years as prisoners of war. They returned to Standing Rock in 1883.
The next year Sitting Bull was given permission to leave the reservation to join the "wild west show" of Buffalo Bill Cody, aka "Buffalo Bill", and he became an audience favorite. He returned to the reservation after only four months with the Cody show, however. By that time he had become somewhat of a celebrity and many whites visited the reservation hoping to see him. He turned a tidy profit charging his "fans" to have their pictures taken with him.
In 1890 a movement known as the "Ghost Dance" swept the Standing Rock reservation. Part of the movement's message was to encourage Indians to defy the authorities and leave the reservation. The Indian Agency administrators were concerned that Sitting Bull, who was still considered a leader among the Sioux and wielded great influence over them, was planning on taking as many Indians as he could and flee the reservation. They ordered the tribal police to arrest and jail him to keep that from happening. On December 15, 1890, a force of more than 40 Indian police arrived at Sitting Bull's house. As they prepared to take him away, nearby Indians who had heard what was happening began to gather around the house. Sitting Bull refused to go with the police, and the crowd became angry. Reportedly a Sioux onlooker grabbed a rifle and fired it at the officer in charge, hitting him. The officer then pulled his weapon and shot Sitting Bull in the chest, and another officer fired a round into his head. The crowd then attacked the police, who fought back, and in the ensuing mêlée eight Indian police and seven Indians in the crowd, along with Sitting Bull, were killed. - Casimir Pavel Ziolkowski was born at Crazy Horse, S.D., up at the mountain where he gave his heart and soul.
Cas met the woman of his dreams in 1982 and it didn't take him long to ask her to spend the rest of her life with him, and he was thankful she said yes. Only a year later and they were married, on Nov. 12, 1983.
Cas took on the role of a father for David and Sonja and not too long after that, his wife Deiadra had Cheyanne, and four years later she had Taylor. Cas loved coaching softball, spending all kinds of time with his grandchildren, the Raiders, keeping the TV at the loudest it could get, and hanging out with his dog Cooper.
He spent years building his family's log home by hand. It speaks volumes of the man he was. He put so much work, effort and love into it every day. He was doing it for his family, not himself, and as was said, it spoke of his heart. He would've given the shoes off his feet, and although he would've liked to keep the cigarettes in the pocket in his shirt, he would've given the shirt off his back and never ask for anything.
On March 12, 2022, Cas' broken heart said goodbye to this world. He was 68.
He is survived by his wife, Deiadra; daughters, Cheyanne (Ryan) Bailey and Taylor (Nolan Saufley) Ziolkowski; stepchildren, David Larson and Sonja Bakonyi; and grandchildren, Ryder, River and Relic Bailey. - Payne Stewart was born in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday, January 30th, 1957. He and his wife, Tracy Stewart (nee, Ferguson), were married on Tuesday, November 10th, 1981. They had 2 children, Chelsea, and William Aaron. Over the course of his PGA career, he won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships in his career, the last of which occurred a few months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42.
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Harlan Band was born on 11 February 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012), Killjoy Goes to Hell (2012) and Evil Bong: High 5 (2016). He died on 4 December 2020 in Sinai, South Dakota, USA.- Actor
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Dave Bald Eagle was born on 8 April 1919 in Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Imprint (2007), Neither Wolf Nor Dog (2016) and River of Fundament (2014). He was married to Josee Kesteman and Penny Rathburn. He died on 22 July 2016 in Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA.- Additional Crew
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Doris Leader Charge was born on 4 May 1930 in Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for Dances with Wolves (1990), Son of the Morning Star (1991) and The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' (1990). She died on 20 February 2001 in Mission, South Dakota, USA.- 'Wild Bill' Hickok was born on 27 May 1837 in Troy Grove, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA. He died on 2 August 1876 in Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota, USA.
- Tony Lara was born on 7 May 1965 in the USA. He died on 8 August 2015 in Sturgis, South Dakota, USA.
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"Sonny was born April 23, 1942, in Kadoka, S.D., to Edison and Gertie (Larvie) Richards. He grew up in Rapid City and was raised by his grandparents, Charles and Angeline Larvie.
Sonny was the first world champion men's fancy dancer and constantly dominated men's powwow dancing in the 1960s and 1970s. He was well known for doing trick roping dancing. His unique style of dance and dress changed and influenced the way people viewed powwow dancing and can still be seen today.
In 1963 Sonny met his wife, Mary Ann Brown, a Navajo from Ganado, Ariz., when she came to Rapid City to enroll in a nursing program. They married Jan. 25, 1964, and from this union they had five children: Vivian (Mike Quick Bear) of Rapid City, Chuck (Bridgit) of Fort Belvoir, Va., Clement Jr. (Gerri) of Box Elder, and Rosalyn Minor (Lance) of Box Elder. Sonny also has an adopted son, Jason James of Edmonton, Canada...
In 1969 Sonny became the first Native American officer in the Rapid City Police Department. Working in community relations, he was minority people's liaison with the justice system. He worked with the police department until 1980 when he took early retirement due to health problems.
In the 1980s he was employed as the Title VII Bilingual Education Program home liaison officer with the Rapid City Area Schools. He served as a cultural adviser and linguist. During this time he also was an adviser to the Wicokini Dance Troupe.
In the early 1990s, Sonny met screenwriter John Fusco and they became good friends. He assisted John in making three major films by serving as the Lakota cultural adviser for Thunder Heart, Dream Keeper and Hidalgo."- Arnie Stenseth was born on 2 June 1937 in Tyler, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Twin Peaks (1989) and Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998). He died on 7 February 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Korczak Ziolkowski was born on 6 September 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Ruth Ross. He died on 20 October 1982 in South Dakota, USA.
- Dave Dedrick was a radio personality and television pioneer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was best remembered for his four decades as host on the long-running children's program, "Captain 11."
David Hugo Dedrick was born to parents, Daniel and Sylvia (Marie) Dedrick, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He moved with his family to Fort Dodge, Iowa before finally settling in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dedrick was only fifteen years old when he started his long career in broadcasting, working for KSOO and KELO radio when he was a junior and senior at Washington High School. After graduation, Dedrick spent four years serving with the U.S. Marine Corp before being honorably discharged. Dedrick married MarJean Schuknecht and spent eighteen months attending Augustana College before being called to active duty with the Marine Reserves during the Korean Conflict.
Dave Dedrick's voice was the first to be heard on KELO-TV during the station's inaugural broadcast on May 19, 1953. He spent the next forty-four years serving as KELO-TV's weather man. After winning a coin toss, Dedrick became the host of the children's television program, "Captain 11," which ran from 1955 to 1996. After his retirement on December 30, 1996, Dave Dedrick received many awards and honors for his work in broadcasting. - White Eagle was born on 25 May 1956 in North Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991) and The Hour of Power (1970). He died on 6 July 1995 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
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Whit Whitley was born on 23 June 1955 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Story's Students (2016) and Listen Hear, Mug (2012). He was married to Karan and Catherine. He died on 18 April 2024 in Deadwood, South Dakota, USA.- Don was born in Mellette County, SD, in 1920. He served as an Army paratrooper in World War II. After his return from the war, Don married Adeline Fott and together they started ranching in Jones County, SD, where they raised their two children Dan and Cheryl.
In January of 1962, the farmer from small-town South Dakota made national news when he began a 70-mile cattle drive, trailing 1800 head of cattle from his Jones County ranch along the White River to Winner, SD. On the third day into the trip, a blizzard hit with temperatures below zero and winds reaching 35 miles per hour. As a result of his accomplishing this difficult drive, his story was picked up by the national news and Don was invited to appear in an episode of ''Rawhide'' which starred a young Clint Eastwood. - Production Manager
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Mel A. Bishop was born on 28 October 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Survival Game (1987) and The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988). He was married to Ardath Bishop. He died on 21 January 2008 in Sturgis, South Dakota, USA.- Actor
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Sam Haggin was born on 18 July 1934 in Gayville, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for The American President (1995), The Disappearance of Christina (1993) and Wonderbug (1976). He died on 21 April 2021 in Deadwood, South Dakota, USA.- Clayton Big Eagle was born on 29 April 1934 in Crow Creek, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Dances with Wolves (1990). He died on 14 December 2007 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Jan Aichele was born on 21 April 1936 in McClusky, North Dakota, USA. He died on 4 October 2014 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Leonard Crow Dog was born on 18 August 1942 in Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Doors (1991), Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White (2011) and Crow Dog (1979). He was married to Francine Cloudman, JoAnn and Mary Crow Dog. He died on 6 June 2021 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
- Eleanor McGovern was born on 25 November 1921 in Woonsocket, South Dakota, USA. She was married to George McGovern. She died on 25 January 2007 in Mitchell, South Dakota, USA.
- Doane Robinson was born on 19 October 1856 in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 27 November 1946 in Pierre, South Dakota, USA.
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Larry Agenbroad was born on 3 April 1933 in Nampa, Idaho, USA. He is known for Paleoworld (1994), Island of the Pygmy Mammoth (2002) and Newton's Apple (1983). He was married to Wanda and Wanda Juanita Sommers. He died on 31 October 2014 in Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA.- Deborah White Plume was born on 20 August 1954 in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Owe Aku: Bring Back the Way (2006), P.O.V. (1988) and Crying Earth Rise Up (2015). She was married to Alex White Plume. She died on 10 November 2020 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
- Ellen Southbrook was born on 15 May 1894 in Beresford, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). She died on 19 January 1991 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Doc Dachtler was born on 30 April 1947 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for No Pain, No Gain (2004) and Pastor Shepherd (2010). He was married to Jody Ann Saari. He died on 24 December 2012 in South Dakota, USA.
- Frank Fools Crow was born in 1890 in Porcupine, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, USA. He died on 27 November 1989 in Kyle, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, USA.
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Black Elk was born in December 1863 in Wyoming, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Yes We Can (1988) and The Indian Wars (1914). He died on 17 August 1950 in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA.- Olive McCloskey was born on 4 September 1921 in Rosebud, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for Journey Through Rosebud (1972). She died on 28 July 1993 in Saint Francis, South Dakota, USA.
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Kevin Locke was born on 23 June 1954 in Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota, USA. He is known for The Telephone (1988), Unbowed (1999) and The Dakota Conflict (1993). He was married to Ceylan Isgor and Dorothy . He died on 30 September 2022 in Custer, South Dakota, USA.- Ruth Ziolkowski was born on 26 June 1926. She was married to Korczak Ziolkowski. She died on 21 May 2014 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
- William Janklow was born on 13 September 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Mary Dean Thom. He died on 12 January 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Additional Crew
James Abourezk was born on 24 February 1931 in Wood, South Dakota, USA. He is known for The Broken Chain (1993), Crazy Horse (1996) and One Bright Shining Moment (2005). He was married to Sanaa Dieb, Margaret Bethea and Mary Ann Houlton. He died on 24 February 2023 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.- Jim Picotte was born on 9 September 1963 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. Jim was married to Sylvia Ellen Red Dog. Jim died on 28 April 2020 in Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA.
- Marlys Thomas was born in 1942 in the USA. She died in 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Terrell Gray was born on 28 September 1991 in Hyattsville, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Bar Flies (2012). He was married to Samantha Tremblay. He died on 1 November 2012 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
- Leonard Charger was born on 29 November 1961 in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. He is known for Dances with Wolves (1990). He died on 10 March 2012 in Isabel, South Dakota, USA.
- Donn Clendenon was born on 15 July 1935 in Neosho, Missouri, USA. He was married to Anne, Joan Holloway and Deanna. He died on 17 September 2005 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Chief Red Cloud was born in 1822 in Nebraska, USA. He died on 10 December 1909 in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA.
- Quentin Bruguier was born on 11 November 1938 in the USA. He died on 17 October 2001 in Lake Andes, South Dakota, USA.
- Eli Tail was born on 17 April 1937 in Porcupine, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Medicine Line (1987) and We Are a Horse Nation (2014). He was married to Carolyn Pontius. He died on 16 October 2023 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA.