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...FOOT Trail, the only paved east-west road on the Pine Ridge reservation, stretches across the southern portion of the reservation and leads directly into Wounded Knee. Back in 1890, Big Foot and his Oglala followers marched along this gently rolling road toward their death at Wounded Knee...
Access to Wounded Knee in the final days before the accord was not quite so easy. Three separate road-blocks sprawled across Big Foot Trail, two of them manned by Indians who opposed each other. The Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...
...come a long way from Franklin Ave. Russell C. Means and Dennis J. Banks, AIM's major spokesmen at Wounded Knee, were not members when AIM organized in 1968, and the movement itself did not become a national one until...
...same time, AIM is also fighting a war against hundreds of Indian Tribal Councils, which it claims are only puppets of the BIA. The attack on Richard Wilson's Oglala Council and the takeover of Wounded Knee was not a caprice. AIM and Wilson have been at odds since Wilson's election 11 months...
...interview inside Wounded Knee three weeks ago, Bad Cob talked about his family heritage. He spoke fondly of his grandfather, who lived...