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Archive Home > 2012 > October > 23 > Activist Means was a leader of uprising at Wounded Knee

Activist Means was a leader of uprising at Wounded Knee

By Dennis McLellan / The Bulletin
October 23, 2012

Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in films and television in the 1990s, has died.....

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