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![The Road to Wounded Knee V](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A demonstration in Rapid City, South Dakota, where members and supporters of the American Indian Movement who took over Wounded Knee in South Dakota protest the Department of the Interior rejecting a request for a land permit. Indian, White, and Chicano supporters attempted to get past the barricades and violent confrontations with the military and police resulted in the killing of a young Chicano man. Protesters spoke about government media control and lack of fair coverage and police and BIA violence as well as Chicano support of Native Americans.
Tom Cook, the president of the Indian Press Association, and an Iroquois, describes the sophisticated culture and governmental structure on the Mohawk reservation; a new movement of Native Americans that are refusing to subscribe to traditional American values and conventions and that they will not concede to a government that shows disregard for land, water and life. The Mohawks refuse to acknowledge the Canadian/American border which separates their land.
Readings from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:Indian History of the American West.
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