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November 25, 1975 - MPR's Kevin McKiernan's inside story on the Menominee Indian takeover of the Alexian Brothers monastery in Gresham, Wisconsin. McKiernan is the only reporter to have gotten in and out of the monastery during the occupation with useable recorded material. He lets the Indian faction tell their story.
September 29, 1975 - Kevin McKiernan spent several weeks in South Dakota reporting on various events in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - including the fatal shooting of two FBI agents and an Indian at the end of June. While there, McKiernan recorded the attitudes and feelings of South Dakota residents, both white and Indian. This is an interview with Pine Ridge medicine man Selo Black Crow. Black Crow begins by relating the story of a white sheriff who leased his land to a third party for cattle grazing. Black Crow imprisoned the cattle and was threatened by the FBI with a charge of cattle rustling. Here is his account of the standoff and its resolution.
September 29, 1975 - Kevin McKiernan spent several weeks in South Dakota reporting on various events in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - including the fatal shooting of two FBI agents and an Indian at the end of June. While there, McKiernan had a conversation with a Rapid City businessman, the night manager of a Western goods store, who asks to remain anonymous. The businessman discusses how Indian people are viewed by some people in the Rapid City white community.
August 14, 1975 - Kevin McKiernan reports on the conviction of Leonard Crowdog, Stan Holder, and Carter Camp for incidents that grew out of the Wounded Knee affair. Report contains various excerpts of interviews and comments of members involved with trial.
July 28, 1975 - MPR reporter Kevin McKiernan put together this program with the hope of presenting a clearer picture of the shootout/ disturbance at Oglala, South Dakota, which left two FBI agents and an Indian dead of gunshot wounds. This is an in depth look back about a month after the Oglala shootings. Kevin McKiernan interviews different factions including reservation residents, FBI spokesman Clay Brady, Indian leaders, S.D. Governor Kneip, and S.D. Sen. James Abourezk.
June 13, 1975 - The governor wants to see elected tribal leadership have stronger leadership and redirect Washington influence that?s so dominant in their life. He?s against violence that occurred. AIM has called for tourist boycott, this hasn?t had any effect on the state but will have harmful effect on Indian people themselves. He rejects that South Dakota is Mississippi of the North. Says racial prejudice and injustice are part of society everywhere. Thinks racism is less in the state than other places. He doesn?t look down on anyone, any color, each should be judged on own merits. Prejudicial thinking comes from an early stage in life. If you strengthen your family life you will strengthen society and stop prejudices. He says low income and downtrodden people are in penitentiary, can?t gain legal means to stay out of that institution. Average Indian in state is in that category, not because of white people but because of ?an allowance to live under substandard conditions because of a guarantee and existence of a federal structure which is basically wrong.?
June 5, 1975 - After three hours, a jury finds defendentd guilty as charged on, 2 indictments: interfering with postal inspectors at Wounded Knee and theft of weapons, which carries a maximum 13 year conviction. Many observers were surprised, as they viewed government's case as weak. Defendant Carter Camp said that it was not a surprise, that they're dealing with a fascist court. "Just because they found us guilty don't mean that we're gonna stop in the struggle, will only add more fuel to the fire of revolution in this country because it's gonna have to come now. This is gonna make Indian people struggle a lot harder. We can struggle in the prison just as well as we can struggle on a street, we're never gonna quit. The fight's just started. [We] will continue fighting no matter what this judge does. This verdict doesn't make any difference, it's only gonna encourage our people to fight harder, and show that there is no justice in this system."