Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials

By John William Sayer

Book Overview

After the siege ended at Wounded Knee, the real battle had yet to be fought. The 1973 standoff in South Dakota between Oglala Lakota Indians and federal lawmen led to the criminal prosecution of American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means. The ten-month trial had all the earmarks of a political tribunal; with the defence led by William Kunstler and the prosecution backed by the Nixon administration, it became a media battle for public opinion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674354338
• ISBN13: 9780674354333
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"