Word: oglala
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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...
...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...
...Indian tribes in the area blockaded the Trail, and throughout the next three years (1865-1868), the Indian chief Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux, spearheaded a running battle with the U.S. cavalry for control of the Powder River area...
...Cloud and other Oglala Sioux eventually signed the treaty, primarily because they had no real choice. The cavalry had already assumed control of the Hills, although one non-signer-Sitting Bull-managed to inflict a horrible defeat on General George A. Custer...
Only 10 per cent of the Indians signed the agreement that gave the Black Hills to the U.S. Sitting Bull took his tribe to Canada and Crazy Horse, an Oglala, drifted about the Black Hills. In 1875, Crazy Horse's emissary. Little Big Man, told the treaty commission that Crazy Horse would never give the white man the Paha Sapa...