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Banks' disappearance did nothing to cool matters at the nearby Oglala Sioux's Pine Ridge Reservation. There the AIM members and sympathizers, many of them fullblood Indians, want to depose Tribal President Richard Wilson and his mostly mixed-blood followers. At week's end many AIM members were gathering at Pine Ridge to participate in a traditional Sioux sun dance, an occasion that held the danger of further violence. In any event, it is clear that the problem of Indian protest is still far from solved...
...grassy rise overlooking an Indian ranch on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation last week, a cluster of Oglala Sioux mourners gathered to bury Joseph Bedell Stuntz, 23, an Indian killed two weeks ago in a Shootout with two FBI agents, who also lost their lives. The day before, FBI Director Clarence Kelley attended services in Southern California, where the two agents were buried with honors...
Violence flared anew last week on the Pine Ridge reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota. It was there in 1973 that militant Indians occupied the town of Wounded Knee for two months and two Indians were killed. This time the victims were two FBI agents, slaughtered by a band of Indian militants, and one of their attackers...
...wearing his WIN button and the same blue suit two days in a row. He stayed in Harry Truman's old suite at the Muehlebach in Kansas City and was made a member of the Future Farmers of America. He did not dodge any protesters or reporters. In Sioux Falls the supporters of George McGovern were swept into his hammy grip just as readily as others...
...eleventh name on the list says flatly that he is no longer a Christian at all: Sioux Indian Lawyer Vine Delorio. But the Indian activist "out of a Christian background ... offers North Americans a stirring call for society's repentance and reform." Whether or not he is a Christian in essence, that presumably qualifies him as a shaker...