Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman by Patricia Bosworth

Author:Patricia Bosworth [Bosworth, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

On their trip across the United States, Jane and Elisabeth kept returning to the subject of sex, but this aspect of their lives was just an aside—they were supposed to be exchanging information about Indian water rights. That’s what they were talking about as they parked the station wagon at the Paiute reservation in Nevada. It was the morning after they left Los Angeles.

Moments after they arrived, they joined twenty Indians standing on the shore and pouring symbolic vials of water into Pyramid Lake. There’d been a long dispute with the U.S. government about a diversion of water from the Truckee River to a non-Indian irrigation project.

A few of the Indians confided to Jane that they suspected their tribal councils were responsible for permitting the white man’s exploitation of the reservation. Jane was still trying to help the Indians although she no longer attempted to be a spokesperson for them. She found most of the Indians apathetic. They were angry, with both their leaders and the white man, but they were divided among themselves and not as militant or dynamic as the Indians she’d met at Alcatraz.

Next she and Elisabeth drove to the Shoshone Reservation at Fort Hall, Utah, where they were joined by LaNada Means, the earnest young activist Jane had met when they were rallying support for the Indian occupation at Alcatraz. LaNada took the two women to meet her father, who spoke sadly about the endless disputes his tribe had had with the U.S. government and the many defeats and betrayals. He had a great many documents from these disputes stuffed into a battered cigar box, and he pulled some of them out to show Jane, a despairing look on his deeply lined face. Jane promised she would do what she could to publicize the Shoshone tribe’s troubles.

The meetings at the reservations had not accomplished much. In the next weeks Jane would visit more Indian reservations in the Southwest where she would be shown more of America’s illegal exploitation of land grants. But first she had to fly back to L.A. for the Academy Awards.

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