Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual powers of the Oglala Council are limited. The Interior Department must approve all tribal resolutions, as it did when Wilson attempted to remove a National Council of Churches representative from the reservation during the third week of the Wounded Knee siege...
...reservation, the full-blooded Oglala Sioux know little of Wilson's work or of the Council. These people support neither AIM nor the Council, and do not understand the struggle between these two groups. They only fear that now that AIM has packed its bags and left Wounded Knee, the already difficult battle for survival will be made tougher by a governmental backlash...
...Sunday, March 11-the 13th day of the takeover-AIM declared itself a sovereign nation. Wounded Knee rapidly became a miniature government. A six-man council, which included Banks, Means, and Camp, set up security, maintenance, and housing departments...
...speed limits for the village, 5 mph in downtown Wounded Knee and 20 mph in the suburbs. The new government also followed a prohibition policy. All liquor, which is illegal on Indian reservations, was poured out onto the brown Dakota soil...
...occupation entered its third week, life in the village settled down to an idyllic pace. Indians lounged outside and in the trading post, or built bunkers into the hills that surround Wounded Knee. But the armed personnel carriers that stared down on the embattled village provided a constant reminder that the Federal government waited two miles down Big Foot Trail...