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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 08:36 PM Jan 2014

Carter Camp, American Indian Leader, Dies at 72

On Dec. 29, 1890, United States cavalry, in the last battle of the American Indian wars, massacred as many as 350 Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Three generations later, Carter Camp, a 32-year-old Indian militant, retaliated.

On the night of Feb. 27, 1973, he led the first wave of armed, self-styled warriors in an operation to seize Wounded Knee, which had become a town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The invaders, carrying a list of grievances against the federal government, seized the trading post, cut the telephone lines, ran the Bureau of Indian Affairs police out of town and took 11 hostages.

“We were pretty sure that we were going to have to give up our lives,” Mr. Camp said in an interview for the PBS program “American Experience” in 2009.

A caravan of 200 cars carrying Indians and their supporters followed, beginning a 71-day, gunshot-punctuated standoff that some applauded as a show of new assertiveness by long-downtrodden Indians and that others deplored as criminal.

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Carter Camp, American Indian Leader, Dies at 72 (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2014 OP
... 2naSalit Jan 2014 #1
Native SamKnause Jan 2014 #2
I agree but, I rarely if ever... DonViejo Jan 2014 #3
I had the privilege of reading many of his words. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 #4
fyi hopemountain Apr 2014 #5

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. I agree but, I rarely if ever...
Thu Jan 9, 2014, 09:21 PM
Jan 2014

edit the actual headline being used by the source; in this case, the New York Times.

The article was linked to by The Daily Beast, I didn't know which headline to go with, the source that led me to the article or the source of the article. TDB's headline is "Militant U.S. Indian Leader Dies" (http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/01/09/american-indian-leader-passes.html)

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
4. I had the privilege of reading many of his words.
Sat Mar 15, 2014, 08:37 AM
Mar 2014

He used to post over at Daily Kos, until he became too ill. He was a remarkable man, even if he sometimes had little patience for those of us who were still struggling to get past our own euro-centric viewpoints. It's good that he not be forgotten.

hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
5. fyi
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 04:39 PM
Apr 2014

american indian or just indian is what some of us still call ourselves. it's old school and use it out of respect to our elders.

he did good things and was a good friend to many.

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