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Despite the resolution, Adams stayed on the scene at the behest of Harlington Wood, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's civil division. Wood, one of the three negotiators who mediated at Wounded Knee, convinced Wilson to allow Adams to remain. But as the occupation dragged on, Wood was replaced, and Wilson obtained a court order to reinforce the resolution...
FROM THE beginning of the takeover, the Wounded Knee incident was a reporter's paradise, Indians wearing war paint, U.S. marshals in baby blue jump suits, and demands centering around an 1868 treaty provided the national press with more copy than it needed. Long before the colorful descriptions became tedious and dull to the writers, the readers' attention waned...
...guts ending, the kind that TV-educated Americans have come to expect from Hollywood, the dispute settled down to a waiting game between the Federal government and the militant members of the American Indian Movement. As the occupation dragged to a close last week, the atmosphere at Wounded Knee had no more excitement than a rerun of "Leave it to Beaver...
...nation's newspaper editors, perhaps still starry-eyed after their usual late-night diet of Wild West grade "B" movies, saw the takeover as another showdown between the seventh cavalry and Sitting Bull. The Detroit News ran a typical story in their March 25, Sunday edition headlined "Wounded Knee looks like the movies but cast is for real...
Unfortunately, it was difficult to ignore the visual impact of the events at Wounded Knee. The most powerful picture taken there shows AIM security officials capturing six Federal agents, who had ventured into the "DMZ" between the Federal and Indian roadblocks. A UPI photographer caught the six Federal officials, hands high above their heads, being led to the Indian security office. Almost every major newspaper in the country carried the photo the next...