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...demanded that Rogers C.B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, return full control of the BIA to Bruce. Morton responded by relieving Bruce of his post as Indian Commissioner. AIM considers Morton's action a direct slap in the face...
Kent Frizzell, an assistant attorney general, negotiated the pact to set up Washington talks. Although no one can predict with any certainly the consequences of the events at Wounded Knee, a shakeup at Interior and the BIA seems inevitable...
...recent years, the Nixon administration has reversed the termination policy, increasing funds to Indian affairs by $300 million. Last year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) received $530 million, the largest amount ever...
...demands at Wounded Knee centered around these three agencies. The militants called for the ouster of Wilson, Pine Ridge BIA superintendent Stanley Lyman, and Aberdeen, S.D., area Interior supervisor Wyman Babby...
...leader at the embattled village, and Wilson extends back to early 1972. The 33-year-old Means, a full-blooded Oglala Sioux born on the Pine Ridge reservation but raised in Cleveland, Ohio, returned to the reservation last year and took up residence. After AIM occupied the BIA building in Washington last November, Wilson denounced the takeover, and said that he would bar AIM from Pine Ridge...