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Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Clyde Dollar Wounded Knee Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 294
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...
Dates: 1973

William J. Shelton FBI Report

 Collection
Identifier: MC 488
Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of FBI file concerning William J. Shelton's involvement with the skirmish between Sioux Indian residents and Federal Law Enforcement Agents at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973.

Dates: 1973-1975