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Over 650 miles from the wind-swept hills that surround Big Foot Trail is a crowded city street known as Franklin Ave. Here on this Minneapolis avenue, the American Indian Movement began. From its modest initiation as an organization founded to protect Minneapolis's young Indians from police harrassment, AIM has grown to a movement with chapters in 37 states...
...massacre seems ingrained into the dusty hills that surround Wounded Knee. The heroes of that incident-Red Cloud, Big Foot, and Sitting Bull-mean as much to the young Oglalas as they did to their grandfathers...
...occupation entered its third week, life in the village settled down to an idyllic pace. Indians lounged outside and in the trading post, or built bunkers into the hills that surround Wounded Knee. But the armed personnel carriers that stared down on the embattled village provided a constant reminder that the Federal government waited two miles down Big Foot Trail...
Thomas Bad Cob, a 73-year-old full-blooded Oglala Sioux, leaned back and looked through his crinkled eyes at the black hills that surround Wounded Knee. "This is our land," he said, "and this is all we have left. You white men have forced us all the way from the East to this small reservation...
...some ways Whiting's life was as mysterious as his death. A former TIME correspondent (1968-1971) who grew up in Washington and graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Whiting, 26, loved to surround himself with Gatsby-like glamour and intrigue. Though not wealthy, he would lunch by himself with a bottle of champagne and fly to London to have a suit made-then fly back again the next week for a second fitting. When he became TIME'S Hollywood correspondent and began hobnobbing with stars, Whiting's fantasies became reality-for a time, anyway. During...