Native Americans
This collection contains interviews, commentary and stories about Native American resistance against Euro-American settler colonialism. Specific topics addressed include the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee, health and medical conditions on reservations, environmental and ecological challenges facing Native communities and the voices of Native leaders.
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![The Road to Wounded Knee II](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
SAME AS CD 169.
Events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota at the begining of Wounded Knee. Hour 2 of 5 hour program. 2nd hour: Programs contains demands on AIM, the status of negotiations of the first 4 weeks of the oppucaption, the declaration of an Independent Oglala Nation and armed struggle with U.S. Marshalls. On Feb 27, 200 members and supproters took over the small village of Wounder Knee South Dakota. AIM demanded immediate investigation of conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation, a study of US treaty violations and a instigation and reorganization of Indian Affairs. Program chronicles daily updates of negotiation process including attacks, killings, holding AIM demands and declarations of nation sovereignty.
![The Road to Wounded Knee II](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
SAME AS KP 111.
Events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota before and during the declaration of Independence by the Tribal Chiefs. Hour 1 of 5 hour program. 2nd hour:
story of conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation, the activities of the elected tribal leader/dictator Richard Wilson which led to his impeachment, and a view of what life was like on the reservation. Additional notes: Program includes rock-like music song, “Spread your wings and fly/ Give peace a holiday/ Give us just a little more time), Treaty of 1868, broken promises of treaty payments, Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 erases sovern status of nations, problems with mixed blood tribal bueracy ripping off own poeple, tribal police corruption and payoffs, taken away of local self government, and federal goverment denies self suffiency.
2 Documents Found