Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee records

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Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee records

1966-1990

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00229.xml

Records documenting the history, internal operation, and legal practice of a committee established by lawyers, legal workers, and others dedicated to the defense of activists involved in the American Indian protest movement of the 1970s.

141.0 cubic feet (142 boxes), 3 master video files: MOV (17 GB), 4 user video files; MP4 (2 GB), 93 master audio files: WAV (30.5 GB), and 84 user audio files: MP3 (3.6 GB)

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Minnesota Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658584

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Banks, Dennis James, 1937-2017

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