Last week, hostilityagainst the liquor stores on the edge of the reservation (booze is banned within it) erupted after the bodies of Ronald Hard Heart and Wilson Black Elk were found decomposing in a ditch near the stores.
True, the hostility it unleashed against Mr Miller's work has mellowed in recent years to an even-tempered indifference, but it has been four decades since the playwright had a big critical or commercial hit in America.