Native Bidaské with Lenny Foster (Diné)

Join Native News Online Publisher Levi Rickert as he interviews Lenny Foster (Diné) to discuss his involvement at Wounded Knee.

Among the American Indian Movement (AIM) membership, February 27th is known as Liberation Day to mark the occupation of the hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
“At the time of Wounded Knee 1973, I was a member of the Denver chapter of the American Indian Movement. I spent 71 days at the Little Big Horn bunker with these other warriors. We survived eleven fire fights, while protecting the Eastern boundaries of the community. The big issue at the time was protecting treaty rights of the Oglala Sioux Nation, and seeking compliance of those treaty rights by the U.S. government,” Lenny Foster (Diné) said to Native News Online about his involvement at Wounded Knee.

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