Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account

Stanley Lyman, who was the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) superintendent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, gives an inside view of what happened when the American Indian Movement (AIM) activists occupied the village of Wounded Knee. Close to the action, he recorded it with unusual candor, directing his sorrow, frustration, and occasional anger to all parties involved-the Tribal Council, the Justice Department, the BIA, FBI, and AIM. His account of the besiegers and besieged reveals a well-meaning and intelligent man forced by dramatic events to reevaluate some long-cherished assumptions. It deserves to be read and studied in any attempt to understand fully Wounded Knee II. Floyd A. O'Neil and Susan McKay edited Wounded Knee 1973 with the help of the author's widow, June K Lyman. Alvin Josephy, Jr., who describes this book as "a very human document of an 'odd man out' in great personal travail," is the author of Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom, also available in a Bison Books edition.

Author: Stanley David Lyman
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/1993
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.35w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780803279339
ISBN10: 0803279337
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Political Science | Civil Rights

About the Author
Floyd A. O'Neil and Susan McKay edited Wounded Knee 1973 with the help of the author's widow, June K Lyman. Alvin Josephy, Jr., who describes this book as a very human document of an 'odd man out' in great personal travail, is the author of Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom (Bison Book, 1985).

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