This week we're going back to the 1970s with Thunderheart! Join us as we learn about FBI jurisdiction on Native American reservations, the American Indian Movement, the Pine Ridge reservation, and more!
Sources:
"What We Investigate: Indian Country Crime," FBI.gov: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/indian-country-crime
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/Public-Law%2083-280
Stewart Wakeling et al, "Policing on American Indian Reservations," US Department of Justice. July 2001
Maura Douglas, "Sufficiently Criminal Ties: Expanding VAWA Criminal Jurisdiction for Indian Tribes," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 166, 3 (2018)
Rebecca A Hart and M. Alexander Lowther, "Honoring Sovereignty: Aiding Tribal Efforts to Protect Native American Women from Domestic Violence," California Law Review 96, 1 (2008)
Roger Ebert Review, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/thunderheart-1992
Sam Pack, "The Best of Both Worlds: Otherness, Appropriation, and Identity in Thunderheart," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001)
TV Reed, "Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001)
"Who is Native American, and Who Decides That?" NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2012/11/01/164101913/who-is-native-american-and-who-decides-that
Circe Sturm, "How the Native American Population Increased 87% Says More About Whiteness Than About Demographics," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/how-the-native-american-population-in-the-us-increased-87-says-more-about-whiteness-than-about-demographics-170920
Sarah Viren, "The Native Scholar Who Wasn't," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderheart
American Experience, "Wounded Knee" We Shall Remain https://youtu.be/DgKJ6UTRMJ4
Kenny Rogers/ History Channel https://youtu.be/lJxqMAopPuA
Charles Trimble, "Honor the Goons? Never!" Indian Country Today https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/honor-the-goons-never
John M. Crewdson, "2 F.B.I. Men Die, Indian Reported Slain in a Sioux Village Near Wounded Knee," The New York Times (27 February 1975):1, 6. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/27/issue.html
Grace Lichtenstein, "16 Sioux Sought by F.B.I. In the Slaying of 2 Agents," The New York Times (28 June 1975): 1, 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/28/78253597.html?pageNumber=1
Molly Ivins, "5 Years After Wounded Knee, Elections Show Tribal Splits," The New York Times (24 February 1978): 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/02/24/110934343.html?pageNumber=12
"It's time to free Leonard Peltier, America's longest serving political prisoner," Scheer Intelligence, KCRW (3 Dec. 2021), https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/its-time-to-free-leonard-peltier-americas-longest-serving-political-prisoner
"June 26, 1975," Leonard (podcast); https://leonard.buzzsprout.com/1176053/4324784-june-26-1975?t=0
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/resmurs-case-reservation-murders
C-SPAN, "1989 - American Indian Activist Russell Means testifies at Senate Hearing," YouTube (posted 24 October 2012), https://youtu.be/xVANRroxuOo
Kevin McKiernan, "Agnes Lamont - Oglala Sioux on Pine Ridge Reservation," MPR Archive, https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1974/08/30/agnes-lamont-oglala-sioux-on-pine-ridge-reservation
https://libguides.usd.edu/abourezk-woundedknee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abourezk
PBS Newshour "Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion," PBS/YouTube (24 August 2011) https://youtu.be/ObabZdcEXh4
Delilah Friedler, ""Get the Hell Off": The Indigenous Fight to Stop a Uranium Mine in the Black Hills," Mother Jones March/April 2020 Issue, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/the-black-hills-are-not-for-sale/