Finzel, Roger A.

As members of the National Lawyers Guild, Roger Finzel and Eda Gordon volunteered to join the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee, formed after the 1973 liberation of the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Finzel served as a staff attorney for the Defense Committee. Gordon, as the committee's press liaison and later as an investigator of Wounded Knee cases. Finzel and Gordon moved to Washington, D.C., and later to Albuquerque, N.M. they continued support work on behalf of traditional Native American peoples.

From the guide to the Roger A. Finzel photograph collection, 1973-1974, (Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico.)