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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A remote Indian tribe buys up land near an urban area, one near good highways and gets this converted into reservation land. It's an outrage. 99.9% of the time it's slick Democrat lawyers who grease the skids to get these bills through the state legislatures.... Once the IndCasino gets built they shovel cash to the campaign funds of Democrat hacks.
Not only that, but many Casinos are backed by Las Vegas Gambling interests and foreign countries like Africa and Indonesia.
And the FIRST money that is taken in they take 40-50% and send it offshore.
A lot of American Indians are not aware of this but just want the money.
Could you FR mail any information that you have about the casino you mentioned in Florida?
Thanks
Really. Good for them. If this were about Vegas, that might be relevent.
Their only mistake was admitting the idea for the name came from native American culture on their web site.
Nah. The mistake was the fact that the French at some point decided tehy needed a name for a strip club and said "Gee, why don't we name it after some famous american indian?" which, in all honesty makes zero sense to me...
But either way, if the Sioux wanna, well, threaten to sue, that's fine. They can do that. It just shows how beaten down they've become, and personally I think it's sad that a once fierce and proud people have succumbed to the liberal plantation mentality...
The descendents of Great Chief Mad Cow are also watching this case very carefully!!
The name could be changed in honor of Chirac, by changing the name to "Crazy Horses Ass".
"Crazy horse strip club draws ire over name."
Hee hee hee! This is insane! hee hee hee hee hee, etc., etc.,
free dixie,sw
Let's assume that the Sioux nation, or some representative organization, gets recognized by the French courts and is allowed to pursue this through legal action. How far do they think that they will get? Don't forget this is a nation that will not allow Muslim women to wear a veil in the interests of maintaining a secular societal outlook. The French government isn't above trampling on a minority group when it suits them.
I live in Virginia. The politically correct term here, according to the tribes themselves is "American Indian."The same was true when I was in Oklahoma. Some of the gangs even wore Cleveland Indians or Washington Redskins gear as "colors". Half the high school teams in the state seemed to have Amerind-based names. This almost has to be a fake. "Harvey White Woman" protesting a strip club name?? Riiiiiiiiigggghhhhhht.
-Eric
The Crazy Horse was mentioned in a Motley Crue tune.
The "William Jefferson Clinton Strip Club and Bar" perhaps instead?
I agree with the Indians. As the club is in Paris, "Cheval Fou" would have been more appropriate than "Crazy Horse"!
A voice of reason. Thank you, my FRiend!
The Crazy Horse show "La Femme" at MGM Grand in Las Vegas is unbelievably great - an absolute must see. Calling it a strip club is ridiculous, it's way too upscale for that and the audiences are 40-50% female.
BS! It conjures up stacks of Marshall amps, robe-clad "Roadeyes" with burning red eyes scurrying about with freshly-tuned guitars and beer for the band, and three dudes backing up Neil Young on some of the rockin'est tunes you'll ever want to hear!
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