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Ghost Dancing the Law - The Wounded Knee Trials (Paperback, Revised)
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Ghost Dancing the Law - The Wounded Knee Trials (Paperback, Revised)
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After the siege ended at Wounded Knee, the real battle had yet to
be fought. The 1973 standoff in South Dakota between Oglala Lakota
Indians and federal lawmen led to the criminal prosecution of
American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means.
The ten-month trial had all the earmarks of a political tribunal;
with the defense led by William Kunstler and the prosecution backed
by the Nixon administration, it became a media battle for public
opinion. This first book-length study of the Wounded Knee trials
demonstrates the impact that legal institutions and the media have
on political dissent. It also shows how the dissenters as
defendants can influence these institutions and the surrounding
political and cultural climate. AIM and its attorneys successfully
turned the courtroom into a political forum on the history of
U.S.-Indian relations but were often frustrated in telling their
story by the need to observe legal procedures--and by the media's
stereotyping them as Indian warriors or sixties militants. John
Sayer draws on court records, news reports, and interviews with
participants to show how the defense, and ultimately the
prosecution, had to respond continually to legal constraints, media
coverage, and political events taking place outside the courtroom.
Although Banks and Means and most of the other protesters were
acquitted, Sayer notes that the confinement of AIM protests to the
courtroom robbed the movement of considerable momentum. Ghost
Dancing the Law shows how legal proceedings can effectively quell
dissent and represents both a critical chapter in the struggle of
Native Americans and an important milestone at the crossroads of
law and politics.
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