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Crazy Horse strip club draws ire over name
modbee ^ | 10-14-04

Posted on 10/14/2004 1:03:20 PM PDT by LouAvul

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) - Descendants of the storied American Indian warrior Crazy Horse want an upscale Paris strip club to stop using his name, saying it's disrespectful to him and his offspring. The nightclub, Crazy Horse Paris, was established in 1951 and is well-known for adult entertainment similar to that featured at casinos in Las Vegas. It's located near the Champs-Elysees, the Seine River and the Pont de l'Alma bridge, where Lady Diana was killed.

Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux warrior known for fighting the U.S. military in the 1800s. One of his descendants and an executor of his estate, Harvey White Woman, has written club owners, asking that they change the name.

He said the request was prompted by an HBO cable television special that featured the club and its dancers wearing what looked to be feathered headdresses, a revered native symbol.

"I saw the name and I said, 'That's not right.' When you say the name Crazy Horse, you don't conjure up nightclubs. You conjure up the warrior," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Kyle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

White Woman said he decided to write the club before taking legal action, something Crazy Horse's descendants have done in the past.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: americanindians; crazyhorse; crazywhiteindian; france
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To: LouAvul

I guess the name of the dead Indian is so sacred that it's been copyrighted and trademarked?


21 posted on 10/14/2004 1:13:35 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: LouAvul

Crazy Horse, I thought it referred to Mr. Ed? LOL
Ops4 God BLess America!


22 posted on 10/14/2004 1:13:38 PM PDT by OPS4 (worth repeating)
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To: LouAvul
Harvey White Woman -- definitely a sKerry supporter. (New York "Indian" maybe?)
23 posted on 10/14/2004 1:15:28 PM PDT by quark
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To: stand watie

Pinging...

Your thoughts?


24 posted on 10/14/2004 1:15:41 PM PDT by RebelBanker (Now I understand! "Allah" is Arabic for "Satan.")
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To: Chad Fairbanks
I wouldn't call that the "politically correct" term,

Point taken. I should've said the "preferred term."

25 posted on 10/14/2004 1:17:11 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Will work for cough syrup...)
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To: Phantom Lord
First they ruined the best malt liquor ever, Crazy Horse

I still am the proud owner of a Crazy Horse malt liquor t0-shirt. My wife wants me to toss, as it is over 12 years old. I tell it's a collector's item Crazy Horse was voted the worst product for the year 1992 by Time magazine.

26 posted on 10/14/2004 1:17:22 PM PDT by bigeasy_70118
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To: RtWngr
For a primer on how to refer to Native Americans, please consult HBO's Deadwood when the new season starts.

So, is this what you are referring to, or something else?

“Not the U.S. government saying I’m trespassing. Or the savage f***ing red man himself,”

27 posted on 10/14/2004 1:18:06 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks ("I don't worry about Muggers. My biggest fear is Poachers." - Elizabeth Edwards)
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To: Corin Stormhands

as a mentally deranged equine, I am insulted by this strip clubs name.


28 posted on 10/14/2004 1:18:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (green lantern returns!)
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To: bigeasy_70118

I loved Crazy Horse. Nothing would get you drunker quicker. And it would get you REAL F'ed UP!


29 posted on 10/14/2004 1:18:44 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: LouAvul; XJarhead
I'm disappointed in the Sioux for deciding to change their name to the Sue. Paris isn't America -- if you sioux in a French Court, you'll just lose your feathers.

My advice to the Sioux is to put on the War Paint, leave the reservation, and take your bows and arrows and horses to France. Ten drunken Sioux on horseback armed with bows and arrows can take Paris in about two hours. Then you can raid the Crazy Horse, scalp all of the American Tourists, grab the nekkid French Dancers and take them back to the reservation. Then, and only then, will people stop messing with the Sioux and other proud Native Americans.

One thing I almost forgot -- Sioux, you'll need to "scalp" the French Dancers also, albeit not on their heads.

30 posted on 10/14/2004 1:20:29 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Did you notice that he was too cowardly to spell it out?


31 posted on 10/14/2004 1:20:32 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (The police never think it's as funny as you do.)
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To: Phantom Lord
I loved Crazy Horse. Nothing would get you drunker quicker. And it would get you REAL F'ed UP!

Who says conservatives don't know how to party?

32 posted on 10/14/2004 1:20:59 PM PDT by bigeasy_70118
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To: Corin Stormhands
The politically correct term here, according to the tribes themselves is "American Indian."

I'm so confused - I thought "American Indian" referred to the guys running 7-11s who got their Green Cards.

33 posted on 10/14/2004 1:22:59 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (WE WILL WIN WITH W - Isara)
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To: Lightfinger

Thye finally figured out that Crazy Horse was braver than any 10 Frenchmen.

I'd be PO'd too if the French were using the name of one of the people I based my Heritage on


34 posted on 10/14/2004 1:23:12 PM PDT by 5Madman2 (DemocRATS are Vermin)
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To: LouAvul
Harvey White Woman

Wow a name that is both raciest and sexist.

35 posted on 10/14/2004 1:23:59 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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To: LouAvul
Did they complain about the not one, but two, Crazy Horse strip clubs in Vegas?
36 posted on 10/14/2004 1:24:17 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

People seem to forget that after the U.S. Government made a Treaty with the Sioux Nation regarding the Black Hills and environs which was supposed to last "until the river no longer runs", word about gold in the hills spread, and the town of "Deadwood" was, basically, an illegal squatter's camp on what was land belonging to the Indians based on the aforementioned treaty.

Then, those mean bad Indians got ticked and went on the warpath. Why would they do something like that to the poor defenseless harmless well-meaning whites who settled the area? They should have just bent over and taken it I guess.


37 posted on 10/14/2004 1:24:50 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks ("I don't worry about Muggers. My biggest fear is Poachers." - Elizabeth Edwards)
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To: LouAvul
One of his descendants and an executor of his estate, Harvey White Woman...

Hmmmm, it sounds like Crazy Horse may have started a casino.

On the other hand, that's kind of hypocritical to complain about someone using the apparently Indian name Crazy Horse when he uses the name White Woman.

But isn't there a tradition that you name your kids what you first see when they are born?

38 posted on 10/14/2004 1:26:11 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: freedumb2003

LOLOLOL!! Best laugh I've had today (that should tell you what kind of a day I've had...) Thanks, f.


39 posted on 10/14/2004 1:26:26 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: You Dirty Rats

first they have to stop the lap dances then "scalp 'em"


40 posted on 10/14/2004 1:26:28 PM PDT by markman46
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