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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...
...same time, AIM is also fighting a war against hundreds of Indian Tribal Councils, which it claims are only puppets of the BIA. The attack on Richard Wilson's Oglala Council and the takeover of Wounded Knee was not a caprice. AIM and Wilson have been at odds since Wilson's election 11 months...
March 26: Tribal Council roadblock goes up; press barred from the village; U.S. marshal shot in the chest, resulting in cease-fire the next...
...presence of the NCC quickly became a sore point at Pine Ridge. Richard Wilson, Oglala Tribal Council President, grew hostile at the mention of Adams, and ultimately, the Council passed a resolution barring all non-residents from the reservation...
...first started feeling the Indians were staging things on March 7," said ABC Producer Bill Brown. "While they were waiting for negotiations to continue, young Indians gathered in the tribal council house and lit a bonfire. It was 60° outside." Brown also thinks that on several occasions newsmen's questions influenced the improvised policy of AIM spokesmen. At one meeting, Brown recalled, "I put the question to them: 'Are you setting up a provisional government?' " Shortly afterward AIM leaders declared Wounded Knee the Oglala Nation...