tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post7992289973563425159..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Russell Means has terminal cancerRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-55917805880686947862011-08-22T04:32:54.233-07:002011-08-22T04:32:54.233-07:00For more on the subject, see:
http://rapidcityjou...For more on the subject, see:<br /><br />http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/activist-russell-means-fighting-esophageal-cancer/article_30efc88c-c94d-11e0-9447-001cc4c03286.html<br /><br /><b>Activist Russell Means fighting esophageal cancer</b><br /><br />Means said he will battle the disease with traditional Native remedies. Herbal teas and other plants with cancer-fighting properties have come to him from tribes as far away as Guadalajara, Mexico, and as close as the Ojibwe tribe in Minnesota. He is also receiving cancer treatments that are approved in Europe and Canada but not in the United States at an alternative cancer center in Scottsdale, Ariz.<br /><br />The charismatic and controversial Means never shrank from a political fight, but he is taking a philosophical approach to the grim news about his health. He knows his prognosis isn’t good, and he has made his peace with that.<br /><br />“I’m not going to argue with the Great Mystery,” he said. “Lakota belief is that death is a change of worlds. And I believe like my dad believed. When it’s my time to go, it’s my time to go.”Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.com