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Obama, Clinton woo American Indian voters The purification ceremony isn't an everyday ritual of U.S. presidential politics.
The newly named Awe Kooda Bilaxpak Kuuxshish-better known as Barack Obama-faced east, the symbolic source of new life. His adopted Crow father, Hartford Black Eagle, prayed over him.
Afterward, they walked arm-in-arm with Black Eagle's wife, Mary, to a podium, where Obama promised to live up to the meaning of his new name: "One Who Helps People Throughout the Land."
Often paid scant attention in U.S. presidential elections, Native Americans are taking an unusually high profile in the final stretch of the Democratic primary campaign.
At primaries' end, American Indians in rare focus
Both Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and front-runner Barack Obama
recently have visited remote Indian reservations in the rugged Western
states of Montana and South Dakota, which hold the final contests in
the drawn-out state-by-state battle on Tuesday.
One Montana tribe, the Crow Nation, has ceremoniously adopted Obama,
giving him a name which means "one who helps people throughout this
land."
Today in 1924, Congress passed a measure that was then signed by President
Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American
Indians.
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