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Show r' Page 12 The I'TAH INDEPENDENT Most of the reports and m Moderates are brushed aside as 2. That a committee, The cowards. visionless commentaries in the news have concentrated upon the grievous violence tends to escalate until the authorities are compelled to plight of the American Indians counter-actioand have interpreted this rising take effective as a spontaneous reaction to This action, when it comes, is a much larger this plight. Less attention has necessarily on more been given to the nature of the scale with many casualties than if appropriate organization which is taking the action had been taken when leading role in promoting the illegal and violent activities disorders and to the question of commenced. The authorities whether it does represent a are then criticized and majority of the Indian people. condemned for overreacting. The militant organization Indians are a series of Many young which has demonstrations and confrontations with the U.S. violent Government is the American Indian Movement. HUMAN EVENTS of March 10, 1973. gives interesting information on the origins and nature of this movement: AIM members were being led by professional agitators with extensive was convicted of armed robbery in 5 1954 and sentenced to years in prison. Paroled, he Bellecourt two-to-1- . was convicted of burglary again in 1960. He was paroled in 1964 and least November faced new charges of aggravated criminal property damage involving a Minneapolis restaurant. Brother Vernon was convicted of burglary in 1950 and armed robbery in 1953, receiving a prison term of five to The organization, according to one national Indian activist, was cooked up in Minnesota penitentiary. The relationship of AIM to the Indian community is similar to that of the Black Panthers to the black community. However, while the Black Panthers have the temporarily gun to concentrate on the ballot, AIM is utilizing the gun. The seizure of Wounded Knee is an example of what Regis Debray and sundry 40 years. communists call The Propaganda of the Deed. It is a move in their drive to gain recruits from the Indian the population, especially It is a young. step towards their objective of complete control of the Indian pupulation. AIM has conducted a series of successful confrontations with the U.S. Government. They seized and occupied Alcatraz Island and government forces failed to evict them. They seized and ransacked the made three demands: 1. That a committee, headed by Senator Edward Kennedy, investiagte the BIA and its dealings with all the Indians tribes. backgrounds. burglary. leaders at Wounded Knee have criminal Three of the founders of AIM, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt and his brother, Vernon, have been convicted of various crimes. Banks has been convicted 15 times of charges including assault, battery and various tribes. 3. That the tribes be allowed to elect their own officials. However, if an elected official does not please them, they demand the right to oust him. Their major demand is for the removal of Richard Wilson, who is the elected president of the Pine Ridge Tribal Council. The GUARDIAN, which applauds the operation at Wounded Knee, editorializes: The demand that Wilson be radicalized. AIM headed by Senator William Fulbright, look into 371 treaties signed by the U.S. Government with n. promoted m The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand April 12, 1973 ousted is the key demand, considered by each side and may lead to a at violent confrontation non-negotia- ble Wounded Knee. 4We Mmii?lh)s need The communists are experts spokeman. The pattern is at the exploitation of familiar. The authorities should act grievances. They have shown great skill at exploiting firmly to quench inthis nationalsim on a worldwide insurrection which is not the scale. The Indian situation interests of the Indian people. presents them with a splendid This insurrection is one action in the program designed to opportunity to exploit national legitimate demoralize and destroy the aspirations and U.S.A. If this program succeeds grievances. have no evidence that the communists organized and communism prevails, the the insurrection at Wounded hopes of the Indians will be Knee. However, there is irretrievably blighted. I evidence that they are influencing and exploiting it. The communists and radicals I see where it is proposed that in a democracy such as insurrectionary forces every possible support. Lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild, classified as a Communist Front, guide and work for them. William Kunstler emerges as a teachers. 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