Dennis Banks speaks at a U of M Rally on the 1-year anniversary of the occupation of Wounded Knee. Says we only have to look to Washington to see who the real burglars are. We only have to look at Kent State and Attica to see who should really be charged with assault and battery. The real theft is coming from Washington DC, Dept of Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs. As long as corruption is alive on the reservation with terrorizing goons there will always be a Wounded Knee, there will always be a chance that we'll have to take a harder stand against people who shoot us down in the streets either here in St. Paul, Minneapolis, or at Pine Ridge or Wounded Knee.
SPEAKER 1: It's a crime that Russell and myself and 130 other defendants have been charged with burglary, and we only have to look to Washington to see who the real burglars are in this country.
They have us charged. They have us charged with assault and battery. And we only have to look at Kent State and Attica to see who should really be charged with assault and battery.
The real theft is coming from Washington, DC, the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. And as long as the corruption is allowed on the reservations, like the tribal president of the goon tactics and the goon squad of Richard Wilson, as long as the goons are allowed to terrorize reservations and communities here in Minneapolis or Chicago or any place, there will always be wounded knees. There will always be a chance that you and I or wherever we're at, we're going to have to take a harder stand against those people who dare shoot us down in the street, either here in St Paul, in Minneapolis, or in Pine Ridge or at Wounded Knee.