Russell means

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1973. The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Leaders Russell Means and Carter Camp, with 200 activists and the Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town for 71 days to protest government failures to honor treaties with Native Americans.

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Russell Means, Oglala Lakota, activist for the rights of Native American people,AIM leader, libertarian political activist, actor, writer, and musician

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From the C-SPAN Video Library - Mr. Means harshly criticizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian leadership of reservations. Russell Means died October 2...

All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That's revolution.

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