Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point proposal issued by the "Trail of Broken Treaties" calls for the U.S. to honor its treaty commitments and to abolish the BIA, substituting an alternate agency that would revitalize Indian-U.S. relations...
...FOOT Trail, the only paved east-west road on the Pine Ridge reservation, stretches across the southern portion of the reservation and leads directly into Wounded Knee. Back in 1890, Big Foot and his Oglala followers marched along this gently rolling road toward their death at Wounded Knee...
Access to Wounded Knee in the final days before the accord was not quite so easy. Three separate road-blocks sprawled across Big Foot Trail, two of them manned by Indians who opposed each other. The Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...
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...
Five hundred Indians joined at that first meeting, and the membership has climbed steadily since. AIM spokemen boast 125,000 members, a figure that by the best estimates seems too high. The movement, however, does have support-over 10,000 Indians joined the "Trail of Broken Treaties" caravan to Washington last November, which ended with a takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office...