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Before it ended, the eleven-day siege of Wounded Knee had thoroughly disrupted the rest of the 2,400-sq.-mi. reservation. In the town of Pine Ridge, 20 miles southwest, the BIA office sent workers home and stopped distributing welfare checks...
...Wounded Knee itself, tensions rose and fell with events. Early in the week, both sides had seemed close to resolving their differences-until Russell Means' brother Bill was wounded in a firefight. When the car transporting him to the hospital was stopped at a roadblock, federal authorities discovered Molotov cocktails in the trunk and arrested the Indians. Incensed, Russell Means crammed his people into a small community hall the next morning to fire them...
...WOUNDED KNEE has been the catalyst," says Donald White, an Oneida Indian who is a student at the University of Illinois. "We have been apathetic for too many years. The people out there are willing to die for us. Maybe it's our time to do something too." Many other Indians, particularly the young, echo his sentiments...
...surging tide of Indian militancy, the most outspoken group is the American Indian Movement, leaders of last November's occupation of the BIA building in Washington, as well as the Wounded Knee takeover. The group's tactics enrage more conservative Indians, whom AIM refers to as "apples"-red on the outside, white on the inside...
...financial, for the time needed, however long that may be, to regain in the America of the space age some measure of the adjustment they enjoyed as the original possessors of their native land." In 1973, as an AIM slogan phrases it: "The Red Giant is on one knee, but he's getting ready to stand...