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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal government curses that treaty even now. The members of the militant American Indian Movement who occupied the historic site of Wounded Knee made the 1868 treaty-the critical pact of what they term a long "trail of broken treaties"-their rallying...
...treaty commission set up shop in 1875 on the White River-at a site that is now the border between Nebraska and South Dakota-not far from the agencies given to Red Cloud and Spotted Tail by treaty with the U.S. (Agencies were parts of a reservation assigned to an Indian chief and his tribe...
...events in the village itself, boredom might have set in sooner if the press had not flooded the historic site. AIM turned away none of the reporters who could reach the village, and the top AIM leaders were accessible to anyone with a notebook, camera, or microphone...
...beginning of Big Foot Trail, some 45 miles west of Wounded Knee, S.D., a yellow, slightly faded billboard stands frozen against the bleak Dakota horizon. "45 miles to Wounded Knee," the billboard screams. "The historic site and mass grave of the last battle between the Indian and the white...
Wilson, a stocky mixed-blood with close cropped hair, was familiar with AIM's tactics. In March 1972, AIM and 2000 supporters gathered in Gordon, Neb., to protest the violent death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. A splinter group headed to Wounded Knee, determined to use the historic site for a symbolic demonstration...