"Native Americans picket television adaptation of Hanta Yo"

Outside of Warner Bros. Studios, a group of people with picket signs protest the pending television mini-series adaptation of Ruth Beebe Hill's controversial novel Hanta Yo. According to a Los Angeles Times report from April 16, 1980, a coalition of Sioux peoples objected to the proposed TV version on the grounds it would draw additional attention to Hill's novel, which they found offensive and insulting in its depiction of Native peoples and their history.

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