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...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...
...February 28, the day after the American Indian Movement seized Wounded Knee, the National Council of Churches (NCC)-an association of the nation's denominations-sent a representative to the occupied area...
When AIM seized the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington last November, the NCC offered advice to the Federal officials, but took no part in the negotiations. At Wounded Knee, however, Adams was instrumental in reopening talks after the shooting of an FBI agent shut the negotiations down...
...went to Pine Ridge uninvited. Allen Ranck, acting deputy general secretary in the NCC New York office, said last week that the decision to send an emissary to Wounded Knee was made by the NCC board...
...were having our semi-annual board meeting in Pittsburgh when we heard Wounded Knee had been taken," Ranck said. "We sent a message urging restraint in dealing with the occupiers...