FULLERTON : Sioux Bid to Regain Black Hills Is Topic
Phillip J. Stevens, the millionaire Newport Beach aerospace engineer who was named a special chief of the Great Sioux Nation, will discuss the tribe’s struggle to recover its sacred Black Hills of South Dakota today at Cal State Fullerton.
The free lecture will be at 4 p.m. in the University Center Theater on campus, located west of the Orange Freeway at Nutwood Avenue and State College Boulevard.
Stevens sold his Irvine engineering firm, Ultrasystems Inc., in 1988 and began devoting his efforts to helping the Sioux Indians seek $3.1 billion in reparations and the return of 1.3 million acres in South Dakota from the federal government. The effort is continuing.
For more information, contact the university’s religious studies department at (714) 773-2441.
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