Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...staked out vast demands: the return by the U.S. Government of territories in both Dakotas, Montana and Nebraska; the investigation of long-broken treaties and a full-scale probe by Congress of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But then Means shifted the main focus to his demand for the ouster of Sioux Tribal Council President Dick Wilson. That issue proved to be more slippery than the larger questions over which the battle was first joined...
Asher said that all parties in the dispute, including the government and tribal council president, Dick Wilson, agreed to the medical relief teams. AIM has called for Wilson's ouster as one of its demands, and Wilson has shown open hostility toward non-Oglala, specifically the press and John T. Adams, the representative...
They demanded an immediate investigation of the sluggish BIA and of past Indian treaties with the U.S. Government. The protesters also made a large point of calling for the ouster of the Pine Ridge tribal council president, Dick Wilson. In large part, the takeover reflected civil strife-a power struggle between two competing Indian factions. Facing off at Wounded Knee were moderates, led by Wilson, and the AIM activists, mostly Indians from outside the reservation, led by Russell Means...
...interview, Wrenn estimated that Citizens for Frisoli represented the views of roughly 7000 Cambridge parents. He said the organization gathered 16,000 names last year on a petition to hold a city-wide referendum on Frisoli's ouster...