years before at the ceremony in which South Dakota had become a state. Hart, as his part of the program, made a speech appealing for justice for America’s original citizens—the Indians—and it was a dramatic one for he made it partly in English, partly in Lakotah (Sioux), and partly in Indian sign language. Unfortunately, he talked longer than had been allowed for in the schedule of CBS, which was broadcasting the event, and the announcer found it necessary to cut him off and move to the next part of the program. As Robert Dean described it: At one moment Hart’s voice was echoing out over the
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