THE LEGACY OF WOUNDED KNEE THE SPIRIT OF THE 1973 WOUNDED KNEE OCCUPATION LIVES ON IN THE OGLALA REFORMERS WHO DRAW ON THEIR TRIBAL HERITAGE TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: November 26, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

(Second of two parts.) About a dozen Wounded Knee residents and National Park Service officials huddle in the entryway of a hilltop church, protecting themselves and their folders of architectural designs from the autumn rain. They are discussing plans for a museum and cultural center to commemorate, at long last, the massacre that took place in 1890 near the creek at the foot of the hill.

No, the Park Service archeologist is telling Alex White Plume, he did not find any bones or other relics that would force them to move the proposed site to avoid sacred ground. What he did turn up ...

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