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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...
Thomas Bad Cob, a 73-year-old full-blooded Oglala Sioux, leaned back and looked through his crinkled eyes at the black hills that surround Wounded Knee. "This is our land," he said, "and this is all we have left. You white men have forced us all the way from the East to this small reservation...
This week, Bad Cob is in Washington, 1600 miles away from the reservation. He was one of three Indians chosen to meet with Leonard Garment, a Presidential assistant, to set up a commission that will study Oglala treaty rights...
...second-to-last generation of Bad Cobs. "My son, who is 50 years old, is only a young buck," he explained. In Oglala slang, a "young buck" is an unmarried male...
...outside." Brown also thinks that on several occasions newsmen's questions influenced the improvised policy of AIM spokesmen. At one meeting, Brown recalled, "I put the question to them: 'Are you setting up a provisional government?' " Shortly afterward AIM leaders declared Wounded Knee the Oglala Nation...