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- Russell Means was once called the "biggest, baddest, meanest, angriest, most famous American Indian activist of the late 20th century." He led a 71-day armed standoff against federal agents at Wounded Knee in 1973.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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, [17] occupied the town of Wounded Knee to protest Oglala tribal chairman Richard Wilson's administration, as well as against the federal government's ...
- Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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 · One of the leaders of the famed 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, Russell Means helped thrust the plight of Native Americans into the national spotlight.
