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Means: Sovereignty benefits U.S.
In a rambling 90-minute address Friday evening that wove personal history with highlights of the American Indian Movement, famed AIM leader and activist Russell Means on reiterated themes he advanced earlier in the day at Augustana College’s annual Dakota Conference, which focused on the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation.  Wounded Knee5/19/2013
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Ickler: More trouble at Wounded Knee
(Massachusetts) -- Forty years ago I was writing editorials about the 71-day armed occupation of a desolate place in South Dakota named Wounded Knee.
5/15/2013
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Native Sun News: A Wounded Knee descendant speaks out
(South Dakota) -- Leonard Little Finger, a highly respected Lakota elder, historian, and direct descendant of Chief Big Foot, has ended his silence on the Wounded Knee...
5/14/2013
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Wounded Knee seller says he's still negotiating with potential buyers
(South Dakota) -- The Rapid City man who is selling a controversial parcel of property near the burial ground of the Wounded Knee massacre said Monday that he is talking...
5/11/2013
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OTHER VIEW: Holocaust Museum of the Indigenous People should be built at Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- Since 1492 the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.
5/10/2013
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Native Sun News: Wounded Knee descendants speak out
(South Dakota) -- The conversation surrounding the sale of Wounded Knee has included commentary from people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, activists from urban...
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ROLO: Remembering Wounded Knee – four decades later
(South Dakota) -- It’s been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian...
5/9/2013
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Commentary: Wounded Knee is American Indians' Gettysburg: Interior Dept Should Declare Eminent Domain
(Michigan) -- Ever since the property at Wounded Knee was put up for sale, American Indians across America have wondered aloud how a place such as Wounded Knee that is...
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KENT: Hallowed ground for sale
(South Dakota) -- It’s been many years since I first visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield -- a vast area of beautiful rolling hills scorched by memories of the...
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Prospective buyers close in on Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- Native Sun News has reviewed documents showing that there are now three separate entities making offers on the two 40 acre plots of land that Jim...
5/8/2013
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Wounded Knee Mystery Bidders Working to Secure Land for Tribe
(South Dakota) -- On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million. He says three of...
5/5/2013
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S.D. tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
5/4/2013
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Column: Wounded Knee should be a national monument, not a profit centre
(South Dakota) -- Wednesday 1 May 2013, we may learn the fate of the massacre site at Wounded Knee, a plot of land on the Pine Ridge Reservation that is currently owned...
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GREED: Wounded Knee Parcel For Sale - Asking Price $3.9 Million, Taxable Value $6,600
(Michigan) -- When I first heard Wounded Knee was for sale back in February I thought it was a joke of some sort. I immediately rejected the idea because it was...
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Oglala President Brewer on Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- James A. Czywczynski of Rapid City, South Dakota has extended the deadline for bids for two tracts of land near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian...
5/3/2013
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Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale on the Open Market
(South Dakota) -- The May 1 deadline came and went without a word from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, so James Czywczynski, who owns the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has...
5/2/2013
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Sioux don't have funds to buy massacre site tracts
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
5/1/2013
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New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions
(South Dakota) -- Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as...
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Official: Tribe can't pay for Wounded Knee site
(South Dakota) -- The president of a South Dakota tribe facing a deadline on whether to buy a piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were massacred more than a...
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Sale of 'Wounded Knee' Massacre Site Extended
(South Dakota) -- Native American tribes declare themselves outraged by the pending sale of lands hallowed by the blood of murdered ancestors: Two 40-acre tracts of...
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SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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Wounded Knee Sale Negotiations Fall Through
(South Dakota) -- 40 acres of land where the Massacre at Wounded Knee took place may be headed to the open market. Its owner, Jim Czywczynski, set Wednesday as the...
4/30/2013
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A Conversation With Wounded Knee Owner James Czywczynski
(South Dakota) -- James Czywczynski, the owner of the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has stated publicly that he will wait until May 1 to entertain offers for the...
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The new battle for Wounded Knee: Sale of massacre site divides tribe
(South Dakota) -- Some of the Native American Indians living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota can still recall first-hand accounts of the massacre at...
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The Sioux View: Museum’s remit must be to tell the story of a slaughter
(South Dakota) -- A lot of people think what happened at Wounded Knee in 1890 was a battle. It wasn’t a battle; it was a slaughter.
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Wounded Knee Sale Deadline Looms
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1 deadline approaches for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to purchase the historic site of Wounded Knee for millions of dollars, the tribe has made...
4/29/2013
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Native American activists plan to hold protests if Wounded Knee land sold
(South Dakota) -- Native American activists say they will stage protests if commercial buyers seek to purchase a part of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark in...
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TRIMBLE: Saving sacred ground -- Wounded Knee saga
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1st deadline approaches for the auctioning of the Wounded Knee land by owner James Czywczynski, I hope any source that may offer to buy the...
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GIAGO: Indigenous Holocaust museum at Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- Since 1492 the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.
4/28/2013
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Activists plan protest if Wounded Knee land sold
(South Dakota) -- Native American activists say they will protest if someone buys and tries to develop a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark that sits...
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Lakota activists: Buy Wounded Knee, face protests
(South Dakota) -- The potential sale of one of the most historically notorious sites in South Dakota history could come with the state's biggest caveat: buy Wounded...
4/27/2013
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To whom does Wounded Knee belong?
(South Dakota) -- The battleground site Wounded Knee is up for sale. Should it be developed as a landmark or left in peace out of respect for the Sioux people who died...
4/26/2013
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Author to present book on Wounded Knee occupation
(South Dakota) -- Forty years after the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened, according to an...
4/16/2013
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Landowner: Three offers for Wounded Knee site tribe covets
(South Dakota) -- A landowner trying to sell a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota said Monday he has three offers from West Coast-...
4/14/2013
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Massacres and Denial: Why Can’t America be Honest?
(Minnesota) -- Every once in a while a really nice example of institutional racism emerges from the corporate media and gives us a chance to expose unexamined...
4/13/2013
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OP/ED: Wounded Knee Needs Federal Buyer
(Connecticut) -- It was recently stated that the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre would be put up for auction on the open market on May 1st.
4/12/2013
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OP/ED: Save Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- THE Lakota Sioux word “takini” means “to die and come back” but is usually translated more simply as “survivor.” It...
4/9/2013
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Native Sun News: Wounded Knee Survivors Association meets
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1 deadline for tribes to acquire the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre approaches both seller and tribal members are beginning to get...
4/2/2013
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The Battle Over Wounded Knee: Who Deserves The Land?
(South Dakota) -- More than 100 years ago, American soldiers massacred men, women and children in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars, making the...
4/1/2013
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HUFFPOST: Wounded Knee Battle Site Is For Sale For 3.9 Mil
(South Dakota) -- The historical site where American soldiers massacred Native-American men, women and children a century ago is up for sale and dredging up painful...
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Sale of Wounded Knee site causes more pain
(South Dakota) -- A proposed sale of the site of the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890 — in which the US Cavalry killed up to 300 Native American men, women and...
3/31/2013
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Mixed Emotions Over Wounded Knee Massacre Site Being For Sale
(South Dakota) -- James A. Czywczynski of Rapid City, South Dakota bought the 40-acre plot where the Wounded Knee massacre occurred in 1968. He moved away in 1973 after...
3/30/2013
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Anger Over Plan to Sell Site of Wounded Knee Massacre
(South Dakota) -- Ever since American soldiers massacred men, women and children here more than a century ago in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars,...
3/22/2013
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Magnuson: Wounded Knee 1973 hostages speaking out
(South Dakota) -- Former South Dakota Sen. James Abourezk, taking questions at the Dakota Conference at Augustana College last year, was taken aback when Adrienne Fritze...
3/21/2013
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Native Sun News: New York Times takes on Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- The New York times paid a visit to the Native Sun News office in Rapid City on March 11 to interview Jim Czywczynski (the owner of two tracts of land...
3/13/2013
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Native Sun News: Company withdraws offer for Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- The site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre which had been put up for sale by land owner Jim Czywczynski a little more than a month ago now has a...
3/9/2013
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FORUM: Wounded Knee has made a difference for Native Americans
(South Dakota) -- The Journal's Feb. 27 editorial, "Wounded Knee, 40 years later," is wrong that "in many ways, nothing came out of the ordeal."
3/1/2013
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Wounded Knee anniversary is marked by chants
(South Dakota) -- A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident who found herself in the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation said Wednesday amid ceremonial gunfire and...
2/28/2013
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40 Years Later, Wounded Knee Is Still Fresh in Our Minds
(South Dakota) -- Hundreds of travelers left their home areas from points all over the United States and Canada last weekend to meet in the tiny village of Wounded Knee...
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A Photographer Remembers Wounded Knee, 40 Years Later
(USA) -- Forty years ago, a caravan of more than 50 cars full of demonstrators pulled into Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That day marked the beginning of a 71-...
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AIM members meet at Wounded Knee to mark anniversary
(South Dakota) -- On February 27th forty years ago the American Indian Movement caught the nation's attention when the organization seized and occupied the...
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Behind the lens: Remembering Wounded Knee
(California) -- The 40th anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation is Feb. 27. Photographer Jim Hubbard was there and gave us this account of those days covering the...
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Ceremonial Walk Commemorates Wounded Knee Anniversary
(South Dakota) -- Forty years ago, the American Indian Movement took over the village of Wounded Knee. Protesters spoke out against what they called a corrupt tribal...
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WOSTER: Wounded Knee can still teach us
(North Dakota) -- Forty years ago today began the occupation of Wounded Knee, a modest community in a valley on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Wounded Knee - 40 years later
(South Dakota) -- On the night of Feb. 27, 1973, beat-up cars carrying dozens of angry young men sped into Wounded Knee village. Members of the American Indian Movement...
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Birdnecklace Renewable Energy Announces an Offer to James Czyszynski's to Acquire the "Wounded Knee Site" [PDF]
(South Dakota) -- Birdnecklace Renewable Energy, LLC, in its commitment to develop and deliver renewable energy resources both economically and environmentally viable,...
2/27/2013
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AIM – Wounded Knee II, 40 years later – Chase Iron Eyes
(South Dakota) -- Today, Feb. 27, 2013 is the 40th Anniversary of the Siege at Wounded Knee, also affectionately known as Wounded Knee II.
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Gunfire, Chants Mark Wounded Knee Anniversary
(South Dakota) -- A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident who found herself in the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation said Wednesday amid ceremonial gunfire and...
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Pride and heartbreak in anniversary of occupation
(South Dakota) -- Don Cuny was 21 years old and ready to die for his people. It was March 1973, and he stood with about 200 fellow Native Americans in the village of...
2/26/2013
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Anniversary of Wounded Knee occupation Wednesday
(South Dakota) -- When members of the American Indian Movement and their supporters gather together Wednesday on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to commemorate the...
2/21/2013
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Native Sun News: Landowner sets deadline on Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- The owner of the two 40 acre parcels of land where the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre occurred, and where members of the American Indian Movement took on...
2/17/2013
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Wounded Knee Massacre Site For Sale
(South Dakota) -- Wounded Knee is a name and place synonymous with bloodshed and violence. It's the location of an 1890 massacre that some estimates say killed up to...
2/13/2013
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Landowner asks $3.9M for part of Wounded Knee site
(South Dakota) -- One of the country's poorest Native American tribes wants to buy a historically significant piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were killed...
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Landowner trying to sell portion of Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- Leaders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation want to buy a parcel of land considered historically significant to the Sioux tribes, but they say the...
2/10/2013
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History for sale? Man seeking $3.9 million for site near Wounded Knee memorial
(South Dakota) -- A decision to sell 40 acres of land near the site of two of South Dakota’s most historically notorious events has opened old wounds on the Pine...
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Sacred ground for sale at Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- A tragic piece of South Dakota history known worldwide is for sale. Eighty acres of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site where...
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TRIMBLE: Attempting to profit from hallowed grounds
(South Dakota) -- A news story on Indianz.com tells that James A. Czywczynski, owner the lands where the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre took place, is offering to sell that...
1/17/2013
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Janklow records to date back to Rosebud days
(South Dakota) -- Efforts to preserve records from the late Gov. Bill Janklow's career will date back to his days as a public defender on the Rosebud Indian...
10/29/2012
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ABOUREZK: Remembering the Wounded Knee trials
(Nebraska) -- He came here to remember. On a cloudy fall night last week, Beaumont Bordeaux climbed the steps up Centennial Mall, lit a candle and listened to Native...
9/7/2012
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Fire totals Wounded Knee Museum in Wall
(South Dakota) -- An electrical fire has destroyed the 10-year-old Wounded Knee Museum in Wall, dedicated to the 1890 massacre on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Historian to speak about Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- Jerome A. Greene, researcher and writer of Native American, American West, and Western military history, will give a presentation on the 1890 Wounded...
5/3/2012
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Native Sun News: Conference opens wounds of Wounded Knee
(South Dakota) -- A conference to discuss Wounded Knee, now and then, caused a bundle of mixed emotions. Augustana College’s Center for Western Studies hosted...
4/28/2012
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FBI, Pine Ridge residents air frustrations
(South Dakota) -- Tensions remained high at the second day of a conference focusing on the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover as American Indian Movements activists and Native...
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Means grows angry when asked about missing man
(South Dakota) -- Aside from brief confrontations between federal officials and American Indian Movement leaders, a two-day conference that brought together all sides of...
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Means: Sovereignty benefits U.S.
(South Dakota) -- In a rambling 90-minute address Friday evening that wove personal history with highlights of the American Indian Movement, famed AIM leader and...
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Old divisions flare as AIM leaders reunite / Wounded Knee siege of 1973 still raw topic
(South Dakota) -- Old hatred dies hard. Many of the archetypal survivors of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation met again Friday at Augustana College’s Center for...
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Wounded Knee conference continues Saturday
(South Dakota) -- An FBI investigator and two assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted thousands of cases stemming from the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover are scheduled to...
4/27/2012
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Widow of civil rights activist wants him home
(South Dakota) -- When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight against social...
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AIM founder lashes out at Wounded Knee conference
(South Dakota) -- American Indian Movement founder Clyde Bellecourt lashed out at the son of a former FBI agent who was in charge during the Wounded Knee takeover in...
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Russell Means: Have No Fear
(South Dakota) -- People have tried to silence him, but Native American activist, author, and actor Russell Means has weathered that storm. He is known for leading the...
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Wounded Knee Conference Gets Under Way Friday
(South Dakota) -- The daughter of a slain American Indian Movement activist, an FBI agent and former AIM leader Russell Means are all scheduled to speak during a two-day...
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Wounded Knee Defense Attorney Ken Tilsen Feels Snubbed
(South Dakota) -- Defense attorney Ken Tilsen is not used to playing the role of spectator. In his legendary legal career that includes defending Dennis Banks and...
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