Word: pined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unknown to Wilson, or the Federal government, AIM had set its sights on Wounded Knee long before it took over the village on February 27. Justice Department "intelligence reports" on AIM's next move indicated that the militants would seize the reservation's BIA office in Pine Ridge, 17 miles southwest of Wounded Knee...
...series of complex events led to the 1890 massacre. Sitting Bull, after a long career of battling the white man, had retired to Standing Rock on the Pine Ridge reservation. In the summer of 1890, the "Ghost Dance" came to the Pine Ridge reservation. Wokova, a Paiute, originated the ritual, and many Indians considered him to be the Messiah...
...Ghost Dance swept across the reservation. Indian disciples came to Pine Ridge to teach the dance, and although Sitting Bull did not believe in the religion, he thought that depriving his people of belief in the Messiah would be more harmful than the dance...
Today, the Indians on the Pine Ridge reservation are still demoralized. The reservation, which occupies 2500 square miles, stands as one of the most impoverished areas in the country. Only a few houses dot the otherwise desolate landscape, and less Indians inhabit the land now than lived...
Most of the employed Indians work for the Federal government, or farm. The soil there is almost worthless-much of it is clay-and the land is used primarily for grazing. The remainder of the Indian workforce labors at the moccasin factory, a depressing blue building located outside Pine Ridge...