Many of our people have forgotten the traditional way “War Stories” are used and respected in the sacred ceremonies of the people of the Sundance and Pipe, we who have always lived in the center of our turtle island. Long…
Frank Blackhorse (Francis DeLuca, Frank Leonard Deluca, Cherokee) is one of several aliases used by a member of the American Indian Movement. He is perhaps best known for his participation in the Wounded Knee incident, particularly his role in the shootout that left two FBI and…
Edgar Bear Runner, Oglala Lakota (May 28 1951 – ) was born in Porcupine, South Dakota, to mother Winnifred “Winni” Alice Janis and father Oscar Bear Runner. Bear Runner was in his early 20s during Wounded Knee and the reign of terror on Pine…
Just one month before the Wounded Knee siege, Wesley Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Sioux, (June 10, 1952-January 27, 1973) was the victim of a murder in which Darrell Schmitz stabbed Bad Heart Bull to death outside a bar. This was Schmidt’s second…
Clyde Bellecourt or Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun which means “Thunder Before the Storm.” White Earth Ojibwe (born May 8, 1936) was a cofounder of AIM in 1968. He was the group’s first chairman. He continues to direct national and international AIM activities, is a coordinator of the National Coalition on…
Previous Views: 8,568 Reservation Economics With the establishment of reservations, tribal territories diminished to a fraction of original areas and indigenous customary practices of land tenure sustained only for a time, and not in every instance. Instead, the federal government established…