Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent efforts of the National Council of Churches as a mediator between government officials and Indians at Wounded Knee, S.D. is a good example of responsible church action, he said...
...first reports out of Wounded Knee, S. Dak., suggested that history had been hijacked by a band of revisionists armed with a time machine...
...winter of 1890. It was overrun one night last week by roughly 200 armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a militant group best known for its week-long occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington last November. Thus a drama began to unwind at Wounded Knee, deep in an area where there is open tension between mostly impoverished Indians and whites...
Death. The protesters set up headquarters in a Roman Catholic church and ransacked a trading post. They took eleven hostages, all Indian residents of Wounded Knee, which lies inside the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation, a 1½ million-acre stretch of honey-colored hills. The Indians put up roadblocks around Wounded Knee in the early hours of the takeover before a contingent of U.S. marshals in turquoise jumpsuits formed a cordon about the area. Some of the people curious and foolhardy enough to wander near the stronghold were met by spurts of gunfire from the hefty Sioux arsenal...
...CURRENT siege of Wounded Knee, the Peabody Museum's exhibit of American Indian Art is full of sobering echoes. These paintings are caught between a culture which never separated the notion of art from life as a whole, and one which occasionally sends young Indian painters to commercial art schools and sometimes hangs their paintings in museums. Some of the painters even have two names: one for life among Indians and one for life among white...