South Dakota

John Graham

In Custody

John Graham is a member of the American Indian Movement and a Native American activist. Graham has spoken in m...

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Released

Mi'kmaq AIM activist born March 27, 1945 in Indian Brook (Shubenacadie 13), Nova Scotia. She participated in t...

Edgar Bear Runner

Released

Edgar Bear Runner was an Oglala Lakota activist with the American Indian Movement. He was arrested and charged...

Pedro Bissonette

Released

Oglala Lakota co-founder of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) and one of the primary organize...

Regina Brave

Released

Regina Brave is an Oglala Lakota elder and activist from the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. In 1973, at...

Dino Butler

Released

Darrelle Dean (Dino) Butler was an American Indian Movement organizer present at the Jumping Bull family compo...

Carter Camp

Released

Ponca leader of the American Indian Movement and the national AIM officer who led the initial seizure of Wound...

Jasilyn Charger

Released

Jasilyn Charger is a Cheyenne River Sioux water protector and land defender who, as a teenager, co-founded the...

Frank Blackhorse

Released

Frank Blackhorse — born Frank Leonard DeLuca and also known as Frank Black Horse — was an American Indian Move...

Greg Grey Cloud

Released

Greg Grey Cloud is a Crow Creek Sioux singer, educator, and activist from South Dakota, and co-founder of Wica...

Crazy Horse

Oglala Lakota war leader, principal Lakota commander at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876) where...

Plenty Horses

Released

Sicangu Lakota young man who, nine days after the December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, shot and killed Lie...

Sam Jacobs

Released

Sam Jacobs, a teacher from Mobridge, South Dakota, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He served...

Russell Means

Released

Russell Means was an Oglala Lakota leader of the American Indian Movement and one of the most visible Indigeno...

Ellen Moves Camp

Released

Ellen Moves Camp was an Oglala Lakota activist and co-founder of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization. S...

Leonard Peltier

Released

Leonard Peltier was an organizer with the American Indian Movement. In the early 1970s he was dispatched along...

Robert Robideau

Released

Robert Eugene Robideau was an American Indian Movement organizer and a member of the AIM spiritual encampment...

Madonna Thunder Hawk

Released

Madonna Thunder Hawk is an Oohenumpa Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux) organizer who has taken part in nearly ever...

Debra White Plume

Released

Debra White Plume was an Oglala Lakota activist and water protector from the Pine Ridge Reservation. She joine...

John H. Wolf

Released

John H. Wolf, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, began serving a five-year prison sentence in Leavenworth Peniten...

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Orville Anderson

Released

Orville Anderson, a farmer from Vermillia, South Dakota, was the Socialist Party's candidate for governor of S...

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Emanuel Baltzer

Released

Emanuel Baltzer was the lead defendant among roughly two dozen German-Russian socialist farmers from South Dak...

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John J. Becker

Released

John J. Becker was a Mennonite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

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Joseph Bill

Released

Joseph Bill was one of five defendants convicted of attempting to interfere with U.S. Marshals and FBI agents...