Anne Pearse-Hocker negatives, photographs, and other materials

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Anne Pearse-Hocker negatives, photographs, and other materials

1970-1973

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.028

The majority of Pearse-Hocker's momentous negatives give eyewitness account to two weeks of both the mundane and brutal reality of daily life during the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The takeover of the town and the conflict between about 200 members of AIM (American Indian Movement, the Native American civil rights activist organization begun in the 1968) and the United States Marshals Service began on February 27 and lasted for 71 days, resulting in tragedy on both sides of the conflict. Members of AIM along with some local Oglala (Lakota) Sioux from the local reservation took over the town in protest against the United States Government's history of broken treaties with various Native groups, the poverty and maltreatment of Native populations, as well as in defiance against the corruption and paternalism within the local subsidiary of the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs). The siege finally came to an end on May 5 when members of AIM and the assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the US Justice Department Harlington Wood Jr. settled on a ceasefire. Kent Frizzell served as Chief Government Negotiator in the capacity of Assistant Attorney General (Land and Natural Resources Division, U. S. Department of Justice) and later as Solicitor, U. S. Department of the Interior. Among those pictured both during and post-conflict are AIM activists Dennis Banks, Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt, Ted and Russell Means, Frank Clearwater, Wallace Black Elk and Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. A small number of negatives also document AIM's takeover of the BIA building and the AIM Powwow both in Minneapolis in 1970.

54 Contact sheets (black and white); 35 mm. (black and white, 8 x 10 in.)

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658180

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Means, Russell, 1939-2012

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Russell Charles Means (born Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, November 10, 1939-died Rapid City, South Dakota, October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician, and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage....

Banks, Dennis James, 1937-2017

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Dennis James Banks, also known by his Ojibwe name Nowa Cumig, was born on April 12, 1937, in his grandparents’ home on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He was raised by his grandparents, Josh and Jenny Drumbeater, until going to the Pipestone Indian Boarding School at the age of five. There, he experienced physical and emotional abuse and forgot most of the Ojibwe language because he was not allowed to speak it. He was transferred to the Wahpeton Indian School in North Dakota for ...

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Bellecourt, Clyde H. (Clyde Howard), 1936-

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Aquash, Anna Mae, 1945-1975

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Annie Mae Aquash, also known as Naguset Eask, (b. March 27, 1945, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia-d. circa mid-December 1975) was a First Nations activist from Nova Scotia, Canada, who moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined American Indians in education and resistance. She was part of the American Indian Movement in the Wounded Knee incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States in 1973. Aquash participated in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and occupation of the Department of Inte...

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