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May 10, 2024 · Means is best known, however, for his role in AIM’s armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. Wounded Knee, a town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, had been the site of a massacre of as many as 300 Sioux by U.S. troops in 1890.
On February 28, 1973, AIM leaders Russell Means (Oglala) and Carter Camp , together with 200 activists and Oglala of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, including children and the elderly, occupied the town of Wounded Knee to protest Oglala tribal chairman Richard Wilson's administration, as well as against the federal government's persistent ...
Oct 30, 2017 · As the leader of AIM, Means led its 1973 armed occupation of the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee. It was the site of the 1890 massacre of some 350 Lakota in the last major conflict of the American Indian wars.
Russell Charles Means (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of American Indians and all oppressed First Nation Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer.
Oct 23, 2012 · He led a 71-day armed standoff against federal agents at Wounded Knee in 1973. Later, he used film as a vehicle for his advocacy. Host Michel Martin offers a remembrance.
Oct 23, 2012 · Russell Means, one of AIM's leaders, died yesterday. Means was a controversial figure within the movement and outside of it; as his New York Times obituary put it, "critics, including...
Oct 22, 2012 · Russell Means, the self-styled modern Indian warrior who forced international attention on the plight of Native Americans for more than four decades, first through militant protest and later...
May 8, 2023 · AIM leaders Russell Means, Clyde Bellecourt, and Dennis Banks faced 11 criminal charges but the cases were eventually dismissed. The occupation drew attention to the issue of indigenous rights...
Oct 22, 2012 · And in a 1973 protest covered by the national news media for months, he led hundreds of Indians and white sympathizers in an occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., site of the 1890 massacre of some...
Oct 22, 2012 · Russell Means was best known for his Hollywood roles and for leading the 1973 armed occupation of the town of Wounded Knee, S.D. One of his last acts, was the formation of a new country...
