American Indians

Pleasant View resident V. Jay Wadman, born March 12, 1927, in Brigham City, died Saturday, January 5, 2013. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 12, at the Pleasant View 11th Ward, 3602 N. 500 West. Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, January 11, at the church and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Interment will be in Ben Lomond Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to American Indian Services, 1902 N. Canyon Road, Suite 100, Provo, UT 84604. Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary. Post condolences at www.myers-mortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Victoria’s Secret has apologized for putting a Native American-style headdress on a model for its annual fashion show, after the outfit was criticized as a display of ignorance toward tribal culture and history.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Russell Means spent a lifetime as a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land and even took up arms against the federal government.

A onetime leader of the American Indian Movement, he called national attention to the plight of impoverished tribes and often lamented the waning of Indian culture. After leaving the movement in the 1980s, the handsome, braided activist was still a cultural presence, appearing in several movies.

Means, who died Monday from throat cancer at age 72, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee — a bloody confrontation that raised America’s awareness about the struggles of Indians and gave rise to a wider protest movement that lasted for the rest of the decade.

FARGO, N.D. -- North Dakota's flagship university dropped its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname for the third time Thursday, and officials expressed hope that the latest retirement -- fueled by this week's overwhelming statewide vote -- would finally stick.

David Treuer never planned on writing nonfiction. "I was happy working on my novels," the fiction writer and University of Southern California professor says over the phone from Ann Arbor, where he is visiting the University of Michigan to talk about his new book, "Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life" (Grove, $26).

OGDEN — Poodles were wearing buckskin at Saturday’s Easter Rendezvous, and if you weren’t sure where buckskin came from, you could watch some guy scrape guts from the inside of the hide of a freshly killed deer.

Children watching that said, “EEW!”

But Fort Buenaventura was full of much else to please the ear or eye: a banjo’s strum, white Indian lodges reflected against the lake, the jangle of beads and bells on an intricately decorated Indian dress, some guy wearing a top hat and breechcloth and nothing else, the “whack!” of an ax hitting wood.

LAYTON — Native American rock art will be the topic at the Sons of Utah Pioneers meeting Tuesday.

The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Davis County Library Central Branch auditorium, 155 N. Wasatch Drive.

The speaker will be Laurel Casjens, former specialist with the Utah Office of Museum Services, said Stephen G. Handy, spokesman for the Snow Horse Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers.

Casjens received her PhD from Harvard University and has extensive experience in Native American culture and art, Handy said.