The Standoff at Wounded Knee - The Reign of Terror | 4

American Scandal

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True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mounting violence forces Dennis Banks and the rest of the occupation to decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for their cause. Federal negotiators face a deadline to end the standoff at all costs, and Banks and Russell Means meet face to face with the FBI.

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0:19.4	On April 17, 50 days into the standoff at Wounded Knee, Occupyre Frank Clearwater is shot
0:25.5	in the head.
0:26.7	US Marshal director Wayne Colburn is the one to get on the radio with the militants.
0:31.4	The aim representative sounds desperate, practically begging for a temporary ceasefire so as
0:36.4	men can get to the body.
0:38.2	He says Clearwater snuck through the perimeter to join them just the night before, alongside
0:42.8	his pregnant wife.
0:44.4	A government bullet came through the wall of the church where he was sleeping.
0:49.2	Even after two months here, Colburn doesn't feel any closer to understanding the Indian's
0:53.2	mindset, who the hell takes his pregnant wife into a war zone.
0:57.6	What did the couple see in this hopeless cause?
1:00.1	He's thinking about this again a few days later, as he and assistant attorney General Kent
1:04.6	Frizel drive towards Wounded Knee.
1:06.9	Up ahead is one of Dick Wilson's illegal roadblocks, a few junker cars from the reservation
1:11.7	parked across the road and 20 of his goons milling around with rifles and shotguns.
1:16.9	Colburn and Frizel share a look of disgust.
1:19.8	The goon checkpoints have been driving them both crazy.
1:22.8	Just the other day, Colburn had to arrest 11 goons who were blocking the Department of
1:26.5	Justice mediators from going into Wounded Knee.
1:29.3	But the FBI tried to stop the arrests.
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