Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grasp of his former comrade, Little Big Man (now an Indian policeman), Crazy Horse was led to the agency jail. When he refused to enter, a guard stabbed the Oglala chief with his bayonet, while Little Big Man held him captive. Crazy Horse was buried, ironically enough, at Wounded Knee...
...struggle between reservation Indians and non-reservation Indians, between Indians co-opted by the government and those who remain outside the government's grasp, erupted again at Wounded Knee. AIM asked for more than adherence to the 1868 Laramie treaty-it asked for the young Oglala to remember that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull died at the hands of Indian police working for the U.S. government...
February 27: AIM seizes Wounded Knee, takes 11 hostages...
March 11: AIM declares Wounded Knee a sovereign nation...
...ministers retain their interest in the red man today. Pine Ridge has as many churches per square feet as Times Square has theaters. The only building in Wounded Knee other than the museum and the trading post, both tourist attractions, is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The mass grave which commemorates the Indians massacred in 1890 at the last battle between the cavalry and the Indians, stands behind the church...