University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1980 Page 5
Indians
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Suddenly, he can no longer resist; the call of the drum.
"I've got to get out there and dance," he apologizes. "I'll take back to join the ring of carrying the sword."
Quoteone, like two of his travel buddies, is a war dancer, while the fourth member of their band plays the violin.
"War dancing is faster and flashier than traditional straight dance" he says. And it is often used in hip-hop.
LIFE ON THE ROAD hasn't been bad to the foursome. In the span of a few months, they danced their way through Kentucky, Idaho, Montana, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Then there were the competitions at home in Florida during the big Fourth of July festivities.
"We hit a lot of one-night powwows," Quotetone recalls, fanning himself in between songs with one of his feather twirlers. "They'd each have their own rules, like not allowing splits, or making you do your whole dance in one small circle. Every contest was different."
Rival dancers travel too, and it is not unusual to meet up with the same competitors in state play.
"Sometimes I'll beat one guy, and the next time he'll beat me. Then some other guy who's not very good will come along and beat both of us. It's weird," says up Quoetone.
A single dancer's winsights could easily total anywhere from $300 to $900 a night, although Joe, the group's renowned straight dancer, once netted $150 for a single dance.
"If you do it and do it right, you can make a lot of money," Quoteone says.
You can also spend a lot of money.
"I bought a Chevro Blazer that's what we traveled in," he says. "I made enough money from the contest for insurance and payments, and we traded off buying gas. Once we traded with some other guys and got two tires for our CB because it wasn't speed anymore, but we needed the tires."
Keeping gas in the tank and food in the stomach took its toll on the group's coffer; by the time the dancers rolled into a town for a performance of warnings from the last stint were invariably gagged.
It doesn't seem to matter that the trip wasn't profitable, however. Dancing is an inherent part of the American Indian heritage, which is deeply ingrained in the young Kiowa.
"My grandmother used to tell me long stories about medicine men and the creation of the world," Quoteetone says, gazing off into nothingness for the briefest of seconds.
THEN HE LEANS forward eagerly, his dark eyes suddenly intent. "I can tell you a short long
story," he begins. "It starts out with Sainda—most of the stories do. You've heard of Sainda, haven't you? He was the Kiowa mischief maker, kind of like Sinbad the Sailor. . ."
Quooteen spins the tale of how Sainda (pronounced "sane-day") got his superhuman powers. It is a legend he has faithfully retold many times for the Kiowa children.
Mastering his tribe's many dances, which are memorized but never written down, has been a major part of his life.
In fact, he has been invited to join a summer tour sponsored by an older member of the Kliowa tribe, which is known for its dancing expositions, he savs.
Wherever Queteone goes, his distinctive black and white costume will always be his trademark.
Many different animals contributed to the making of the costume, he says—porcupine quills for the roach, the row of bristles running from his forehead down the back of his head; turkey and rooster feathers for the two circular fans of feathers, called bustles, that adorn his back, and wool of the mountain sheep for the leg wrappings below his knees.
The feathers in his hair and on his hand-held twirling sticks, which are his pride and joy, all hang from his neck.
Most of the outfit was either homemade or was given to him.
"If you really admire something that belongs to another person, that person is obligated to give it to you—if he's a true Indian," Quetone says.
"For instance, if I looked at your shoes and said, 'Gee, I really like those shoes. I really think those are nice,' well, you'd have to give them我 I've lost more things that way," he says, "but it feels good to give because you know you'll get something in return later on in life."
AS THE POWW draws to a close, Quoteon rushes off to take part in the ruffe dance.
The crowd watches wide-eyed as the master lungs forward, backward, then begins to spin, once again transforming himself into the whirling gray blur.
When the furry subsides, the dancer slides off the floor, physically exhausted, but spiritually exhausted.
He reaches down to loosen the wrappings around his bloody shins, where his silver bells cut into the skin during his explosive fit of dancing.
He laughs at the query, and his feathers bob. "Where'd I learn to dance?" he says.
"Where'd you learn to dance like that?" asks one admirer. "There's no one out there who can
With a smile at new-found friends who know the answer, he replies, "Man, I grew up dancing.
and his yard was just as tangled as it had been every summer.
Lantz
In June, when the District Court gave him a choice of paying the fine or spending 10 days in prison, he was sentenced to 30 days in the Douglas County Jail for refusing to clean his yard. He was released two weeks ago.
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"I knew they didn't want to put me in jail, but I took the 30 days anyway," L兰斯 said. "Well, hell, they had to feed me in jail and they had to a doctor to take my blood pressure every day."
RONALD LANTZ and his wife, Margaret, are not rich, lantz said. They live on monthly Social Security checks and a small pension from the fund. When he was not afraid to spend money when he was right.
Four years ago, Lanz spent $130 fighting a $25 parking fee and two later years, he spent $200 fighting the fee.
Lanz is not sure how much legal fees have cost him this year. Maybe $5,000, he said.
"I don't believe in bullying people, but I'll be damned if I let them bully me," he said.
"The goods" are a collection of 3,500 color slides showing city property that Lantz says is worth $2 million.
"That's where I've got them," he said. "At
least if the Constitution means anything, I have."
Lantz shoots the slides himself with a Pentax camera he learned to operate in his Navy days. Every week, Lantz, who retired from construction work two years ago, drives through Lawrence for hours at a time, photographing run-down city property for his file. After two years of looking for the city's violations, Lantz said he knew where to find them.
ON ONE TRIP through town, he pointed out rotting elm trees, waist-high heatherweed, foxtails and heavy, yellow sunflowers—all on city property, he said.
He stopped his car near a clump of high grass littered with rocks and glass.
"Look at that brush," he said. "If they saw that on my place, they'd be on my butt so fast I didn't."
Near the Lawrence Water Plant, he stopped by a pile of clippings that was surrounded by rocks. He picked them up and
He walked along a gully near the north city limits that was choked with washing machines, lawn chairs and plastic. The gully was covered with lime from the nearby plant.
Lank zicked the blue-white powder with a leather boot that had been softened by hard use.
"See this?" he asked. "That's why I'm fighting."
Lanz said that in the case soon to be filed in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, he would try to prove that the city of Lawrence enforced its ordinances unfairly and that any city ordinance that interfered with the appearance of private property was unconstitutional.
A little powder trickled into the ditch, and he walked back to his car.
Dennis Hawver, a Topeka lawyer who represents Lantz, said he had a good chance of winning.
BUT WIN OR LOSE, Lantz said he would not leave Lawrence and would not change his yard.
"I'm getting along to the age when I could kick the bucket any day now," he said.
Lantz said the city had offered to help pay for the paint, but he is not young enough to paint his nine-room house and not rich enough to hire someone to do it for him.
As he spoke, Lantz swisht his hoe again at the nearby grass spread to his yard from the nearby Kansas River.
He stooped to cut around the jagged stumps that city workers behind last summer.
that stump was an ash tree." Lantz said. "I wanted that for a shade tree."
He slowly straightened under the white September sky.
"When they come in and tear it up," he said.
"It's hard to keep a decent vard."
Red tape
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David Kraft, dean of the School of Engineering, said he had received a negative response from the school's faculty about the regulations.
He said, however, that non-compliance was wufle because it was a federal regulation.
"We're not pleased about it," he said, "but we're going to do it anyway."
Angino said he would not complete the forms.
"If I don't see any strong punishment side to that thing, I'll be damned to fill it out," he said.
LONG-RANGE IMPLICATIONS of non-compliance could mean a loss of federal grants to the University, Kraft said.
resolution against the regulations and would discuss it with the Faculty Council today.
The NAS resolution said the burden on faculty research and reduced morale were reasons for reconsideration of the regulations.
Worth said it would be up to each faculty to decide whether to comply with the regulation.
Worth said he was certain the Faculty Council would approve KU's support of the resolution.
He said the faculty executive committee had approved a National Academy of Science
Evelyn Swartz, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said AAPU thought the regulations were impossible to comply with.
"It adds an additional layer of paper work and an additional burden on instructors," she said.
EARL NEHRING, chairman of the political service department, said no one in his department was running for office.
He said that faculty already gave him estimates on the time spent on their activities and that it was not that much of an additional burden.
Besides, he said, the reports are only preliminary estimates, not actual records.
"You hope it's reasonable," he said, "but it's just a guestimate."
Beer said he did not foresee any problems with faculty misrepresenting their time.
"I have a pretty good idea of what faculty are doing," she says. "The kinds of reports corroborate my impression."
He said that large departments might have problems, but that they seem notionally friendly. "Well, they really involve."
Hallenbeck said any discrepancies between estimates and actual time percentages could be found.
Angino said there was no way of knowing that the percentages designated to each activity.
She said chairmen were notified yesterday about training sessions that begin Oct. 8 for
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