Scope and Content Note

Correspondence (1972-1975), photographs, sound recordings, maps, pamphlets, periodicals, clippings, and other published material relating to the occupation of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, by leaders of the American Indian Movement, February 27 to May 8, 1973; to the resultant confrontation with federal officials; and to the aftermath of the controversy.

Scope and Content Note

90 Items. Photo, SR.

Eighty-nine 35 mm. color photographs, mounted for use in slide projector and numbered on mounting frames, together with photographer Dollar's cassette tape-recorded commentary. Photographs pertain to the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota , by leaders of the American Indian Movement, February 27 to May 8, 1973.

Scope and Contents

Paper binder, containing: 2 pages introductory material and 1 page map (1979); 20 mounted photographic prints (5" x 3.5") on 7 pages and 20 35mm photographic negatives on 1 page (1973); pertaining to the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, by leaders of the American Indian Movemember, February 27-July 4, 1973.

Scope and Content Note The tapes consist of Dollar's interviews with William Shelton and Paul Manhart, both in 1973; two individually titled tapes of personal observations made by Dollar in 1973; and five tapes of telephone conversations entitled "Foxfire." To the users of the Foxfire Tapes: The news of the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee by Indian militants cause great excitement on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, both among Indians and Whites alike. As the situation reached...