Photographie Feanck Washicu Pinero Norman Brown was an AIM combatant and only sixteen years old at the time of the shootings. Two days of ceremonies were held at various sites around the reservation June 26 and 27, exactly two and a half decades after the firefight on the property of Harry and Cecelia Jumping Bull that took the lives of agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, and AIM member Joseph Stuntz. The deaths marked the fina...l chapter of the era of American Indian Movement militancy on Pine Ridge that began two years earlier with the siege of Wounded Knee. A Wiping of the Tears ceremony—a Lakota ritual meant to release the spirits of the dead and heal the grieving, was held on the Jumping Bull’s land. Honored were the memories of the two agents, AIM member Anna Mae Aquash, and Joe Stuntz. The agents’ families declined an invitation to attend. “ This is a day of reconciliation,” said Bruce Ellison, a Rapid City, S.D. attorney who has represented AIM members for over 25 years. But in order to move forward, we must make sure this never happens again. The question must be asked, ‘Why were the people of this reservation so afraid that they would muster their rusted .22s to protect themselves ?
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:48:43 +0000
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