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• Red Cloud was a fourth-generation descendent of Chief Red Cloud, who led several battles against the U.S. Army and also signed the 1868 Fort Laramie peace agreement with the United States.
• Friends and family say Oliver Red Cloud, who served as chief starting in 1977, was a champion of Lakota culture and a defender of American Indian treaty rights. They say he was also the leading statesman for keeping peace between Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
• Red Cloud's funeral is set for Saturday.
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SDSU associate nursing dean earns fellowship
• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- An associate dean for nursing at South Dakota State University has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
• Linda Herrick is one of 172 fellows selected this year.
• Herrick is being recognized for working to promote clinical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
• She says she's honored to be recognized. She says it has been gratifying promoting clinical research through teaching and mentoring and conducting her own research.
• This year's fellows at the American Academy of Nursing will be inducted during the academy's 40th annual meeting Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C.
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Depp's interest in Wounded Knee causes a stir
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- For months, questions have swirled about whether developers, activists or tribes would be willing to plunk down millions to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark. Now there's a new potential buyer in the mix: Johnny Depp.
• But is the star of "The Lone Ranger" really preparing to be the one who buys the property where hundreds of Native Americans were killed? Or is it just the latest rumor in the contentious debate over the landmark's future?
• Depp touched off the story when he told London's Daily Mail newspaper that he is working to buy a piece of the landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to give back to the tribe because it's important to their culture. The site is where 300 Native American men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890.
• "I am doing my best to make that happen," he told the newspaper of a possible purchase. "It's land they were pushed on to and then they were massacred there. It (Continued on page 24)
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