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...reinforce that broadly-based document, AIM conducts local forays to dramatize isolated injustices. The Wounded Knee area is ideal for this type of action. The site is located in the Black Hills, where the U.S. allegedly violated the Laramie treaty, and it was here that the last battle between the Indians and the U.S. cavalry took place...
...Four days after AIM arrived in Gordon, 300 Indians left Gordon and headed for Wounded Knee, 40 miles north. The demonstrators stormed the museum at the historic site, causing $50,000 damage. The militants claimed that James Czywczynski, owner of the museum, touched off the incident when he allegedly roughed up an 11-year-old Sioux boy. Czywczynski, like most Pine Ridge residents who own businesses, is white...
After Washington, AIM shifted from a political setting to a symbolical one. On February 27, the militant group seized Wounded Knee. During the long takeover, the Interior Department had little input into the situation. Interior spokesmen refused to take part in the negotiations unless the Indians put aside their guns...
Kent Frizzell, an assistant attorney general, negotiated the pact to set up Washington talks. Although no one can predict with any certainly the consequences of the events at Wounded Knee, a shakeup at Interior and the BIA seems inevitable...
Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...