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April 7: AIM representatives meet in Washington to discuss Oglala treaty rights; occupation continues...
...cavalry caught up with him at Spotted Tail's agency, and arrested him. Under the grasp of his former comrade, Little Big Man (now an Indian policeman), Crazy Horse was led to the agency jail. When he refused to enter, a guard stabbed the Oglala chief with his bayonet, while Little Big Man held him captive. Crazy Horse was buried, ironically enough, at Wounded Knee...
...struggle between reservation Indians and non-reservation Indians, between Indians co-opted by the government and those who remain outside the government's grasp, erupted again at Wounded Knee. AIM asked for more than adherence to the 1868 Laramie treaty-it asked for the young Oglala to remember that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull died at the hands of Indian police working for the U.S. government...
...SKYLINE at Pine Ridge, capital of the Pine Ridge reservation, rarely rises above two stories. In most rural towns, the stark, white church steeples would go unnoticed, but in Pine Ridge, they jut proudly into the air, as if straining to assume a rightful place in the Oglala culture...
...presence of the NCC quickly became a sore point at Pine Ridge. Richard Wilson, Oglala Tribal Council President, grew hostile at the mention of Adams, and ultimately, the Council passed a resolution barring all non-residents from the reservation...