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Throwing Muses: Hunkpapa

Len Brown, New Musical Express, 21 January 1989

WAS SITTING BULL a Hunkpapa or an Oglala Sioux? And how come one of these two strands of the Sioux nation has emerged as a fixation of the Bostonian Throwing Muses? Answers, to be honest, are rarely forthcoming, merely more questions in typical Kristin Hersch style.

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