Adam Fortunate Eagle, a human whirlwind who spun amazing stories, was a newspaperman’s dream. Fortunate Eagle “scalped” Columbus in San Francisco in 1968. Later, he landed in Europe, in Chippawa Indian regalia, to “discover”—and claim—both Italy and Sweden for Native Americans. He once offered his ring to the Pope to kiss. He was the architect of the American Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969. The FBI then labeled him an “enemy of the s…
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