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NEW YORK (AP) — Witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial is set to move forward again and all eyes are on who will be called next. WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers ...
5 days ago · On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had seized the few major buildings in town and police had cordoned off the area. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun.
3 days ago · The Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala band of Lakota Sioux, initially contained over 60,000,000 acres as part of the Great Sioux Reservation that was established by the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868. The reservation has been significantly reduced in size as the U.S. government illegally opened the land to ...
1 day ago · Final defendants sentenced in kidnapping of FBI employee near Oglala Deyvin Morales and Karla Lopez-Gutierrez were both sentenced Friday for their roles in kidnapping an FBI victim specialist at ...
3 days ago · Native American News Roundup Jan. 15-21, 2023. Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.) is an American Indian (mostly Ojibwa) activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.
2 days ago · Leonard Peltier: 'I hope I make it to June 10' Best of the West: Girls Basketball; Rapid City Sports Hall of Fame to induct 7 to HOF, name athletes of the year at Banquet; Best of the West: Boys ...
3 days ago · Peltier, a 79-year-old Indigenous rights activist, has been in prison since 1977. An all-white jury convicted Peltier of murdering the two agents on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. In 2021, tribal members sent a petition to Biden, asking for compassionate release or clemency.
