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Box 1

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Contains 1 Result:

Wounded Knee, Part 2 - Information packet, Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee material, newspaper articles, conference paper given by Kenneth Tilsen, artwork, poetry, summary of Wounded Knee events, correspondence, affidavit of Pedro Bissonette,, 1973-1995.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content From the Collection: Although this collection spans the timeframe 1965-1995, the bulk of the material focuses on 1973-1979, the time, circumstances, and repercussions of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota by 300 Indians led by members of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) and the American Indian Movement (AIM). The collection is divided into 4 overlapping series, specifically, American Indian Movement /Bureau of Indian Affairs (AIM/BIA), Wounded Knee and Its...
Dates: 1973-1995.