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THE OGLALA FIREFIGHT & THE RESMURS PROSECUTIONS (1975)
The Oglala Firefight & the RESMURS Prosecutions (1975)

On June 26, 1975, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams drove onto the Jumping Bull ranch near Oglala, where an AIM defense camp had formed to protect traditionalist families from GOON violence. A shootout erupted whose first shot was never established; the two agents and a young Native man, Joe Stuntz Killsright, were killed. Stuntz's death was never investigated.

The FBI's RESMURS investigation that followed was the largest in its history, saturating Pine Ridge with hundreds of agents and armored vehicles. Four AIM members were charged with the agents' deaths: charges against Jimmy Eagle were dropped, and Darrelle "Dino" Butler, Bob Robideau, and Leonard Peltier — who fled to Canada — became the movement's defining criminal case.