The first to answer their phone was an 86-year-old Hopi-Winnebago man named Louis Mofsie, or Green Rainbow, a founding member of Thunderbird American Indian Dancers.
I was conducting research for my biography Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard and attempting to reach the people in a cast list titled “Indians” in the original program for the playwright’s Operation Sidewinder. Staged at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in the spring of 1970, the full-length play is notable as Shepard’s first and only drama to premiere on Broadway.
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