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Article: Indian nations across the U.S. say they don't need organizations speaking for them. (Originated from Indian Country Today)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 13, 1993
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RAPID CITY, S.D. _ I suppose it was inevitable that with the sudden saturation of new movies about the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee (``Lakota Woman''), or movies dwelling upon Leonard Peltier, the man convicted of murdering two FBI agents near Oglala, S.D. (``Thunderheart''), the movie moguls in Hollywood, who jumped on the Indian bandwagon after the artistic and financial success of ``Dances with Wolves,'' would attempt to rewrite Indian history to fit their scripts.
When the American Indian Movement first appeared on the national scene 25 years ago and started to make a strong stand for the rights of Indians, many people, including Dick Wilson, then chairman of the ...