Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead man was Lawrence Lamont, 31, an Oglala Sioux. His death was potentially explosive in view of demands by his family that he be buried in Wounded Knee. The Oglala Sioux tribal council and federal authorities have already refused to allow such a burial for Clearwater...
...animosity between Russell C. Means, the top AIM leader at the embattled village, and Wilson extends back to early 1972. The 33-year-old Means, a full-blooded Oglala Sioux born on the Pine Ridge reservation but raised in Cleveland, Ohio, returned to the reservation last year and took up residence. After AIM occupied the BIA building in Washington last November, Wilson denounced the takeover, and said that he would bar AIM from Pine Ridge...
...dancing continued. In November, the BIA ordered its agents to arrest Sitting Bull. Indian police arrived at the tepee of the great Sioux chief, and in a disputed incident, a U.S. corporal shot Sitting Bull, while they were surrounded by ghost dancers...
...Wheeler-Howard Act, written under the auspices of John Collier '23, then Commissioner of Indian Affairs, gave the tribes the right to organize and to adopt a constitution. Most tribes, including the Oglala Sioux, drafted a constitution, but some tribes decided not to ratify...
...reservation, the full-blooded Oglala Sioux know little of Wilson's work or of the Council. These people support neither AIM nor the Council, and do not understand the struggle between these two groups. They only fear that now that AIM has packed its bags and left Wounded Knee, the already difficult battle for survival will be made tougher by a governmental backlash...