Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Lakota-Sioux Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Most of the land comprising the reservation lies within Shannon County.
On June 26, 1975, the reservation was the site of an armed confrontation between American Indian Movement (AIM) activists and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in an event which became known as the Pine Ridge Shootout. It resulted the death of two FBI agents and the conviction of the AIM member Leonard Peltier.
The reservation is also the setting for the movie Smoke Signals and the book On the Rez by Ian Frazier.
See also
External link
- Reservation Profiles: Pine Ridge (http://www.airc.org/reservations/pineridge.html)
- FreePeltier.org's information on the 'Pine ridge Shootout' (http://www.freepeltier.org/peltier_faq.htm)
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