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...headed for Wounded Knee, 40 miles north. The demonstrators stormed the museum at the historic site, causing $50,000 damage. The militants claimed that James Czywczynski, owner of the museum, touched off the incident when he allegedly roughed up an 11-year-old Sioux boy. Czywczynski, like most Pine Ridge residents who own businesses, is white...
Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...
...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...
...ministers retain their interest in the red man today. Pine Ridge has as many churches per square feet as Times Square has theaters. The only building in Wounded Knee other than the museum and the trading post, both tourist attractions, is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The mass grave which commemorates the Indians massacred in 1890 at the last battle between the cavalry and the Indians, stands behind the church...
...went to Pine Ridge uninvited. Allen Ranck, acting deputy general secretary in the NCC New York office, said last week that the decision to send an emissary to Wounded Knee was made by the NCC board...