{"id":6778,"date":"2012-10-22T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:25:45","slug":"from-c-span-wounded-knee-1973-forty-years-later-remembering-russell-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/from-c-span-wounded-knee-1973-forty-years-later-remembering-russell-means\/","title":{"rendered":"(from c-span)  &#8216;Wounded Knee 1973: Forty Years Later&#8217;  &#038;  Remembering Russell Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Indian activist Russell Means died earlier today.\u00a0 Below is a link to hear his address to the 2012 Dakota Conference on Wounded Knee 1973.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sioux Falls, South Dakota<br \/>\nSaturday, July 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p>In February of 1973, Oglala Lakota Indians and members of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. For the next few months hostilities ensued, resulting in both Native American and U.S. officials\u2019 deaths. Russell Means, an Oglala Sioux activist, was indicted on charges related to the event but was never convicted. Mr. Means speaks about his experiences at Wounded Knee forty years later at\u00a0Augustana College and highlights\u00a0the history of Native Americans in the U.S., specifically his personal struggles with the American government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>click here to view the video&#8230;look for &#8216;playlist&#8217; on right side of screen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Events\/Wounded-Knee-1973-Forty-Years-Later\/10737432361\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6780\" title=\"RussellMeans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/RussellMeans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/RussellMeans.jpg 314w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/RussellMeans-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to read the current issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Events\/Wounded-Knee-1973-Forty-Years-Later\/10737432361\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Indian activist Russell Means died earlier today.\u00a0 Below is a link to hear his address to the 2012 Dakota Conference on Wounded Knee 1973. AN EXCERPT: Sioux Falls, South Dakota Saturday, July 28, 2012 In February of 1973, Oglala Lakota Indians and members of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}