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...tiny junction settlement (pop. 40) is the site of the infamous massacre of some 300 old men, women and children of the Sioux nation by the U.S. Cavalry in the winter of 1890. It was overrun one night last week by roughly 200 armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a militant group best known for its week-long occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington last November. Thus a drama began to unwind at Wounded Knee, deep in an area where there is open tension between mostly impoverished Indians and whites...
Death. The protesters set up headquarters in a Roman Catholic church and ransacked a trading post. They took eleven hostages, all Indian residents of Wounded Knee, which lies inside the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation, a 1½ million-acre stretch of honey-colored hills. The Indians put up roadblocks around Wounded Knee in the early hours of the takeover before a contingent of U.S. marshals in turquoise jumpsuits formed a cordon about the area. Some of the people curious and foolhardy enough to wander near the stronghold were met by spurts of gunfire from the hefty Sioux arsenal...
...group is trying to raise money to pay the expenses of Arthur W. Zimiga, graduate student in education, who is going to Wounded Knee. Zimiga, a Sioux, lives near Wounded Knee...
Residents of Sioux City, Iowa, were asked by Mayor Paul Berger to turn back their thermostats to 68° until the shortages end. Public schools in Denver, Wichita, Kans., and Nebraska City, Neb., were either shut down or put on short hours for want of anything to put in the furnaces. In Illinois dozens of grain-elevator operators have been unable to buy gas, leaving heaps of undried grain in danger of rotting. In New York City, American Airlines and TWA converted some nonstop transcontinental flights into interrupted runs so that the planes could fuel up along...
Eugene J. Dionne Jr. '73 of Adams House and Fall River: David A. Koplow '73 of Winthrop House and Sioux Falls, S.D.; John Misha Petkevich '72-4 of Eliot House and Great Falls, Mont.; Terence D. Valenzuela '73 of Adams House and Phoenix, Artz.; and Wendell L. Willkie 11 '73 of Dunster House and Wayzatta, Minn...