Coverage in the Dakota Lakota Journal

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Photos of our trip to Lame Deer

Here are some photos from our last trip to Lame Deer:

Chief Little Wolf relatives, from left, John “Hector” Riley and Eliase Grey Wolf hold up an American Indian Movement during a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. Means met with local activist Tim Lame Woman as well as other tribal members. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

Tim Lame Woman delivers a prayer as American Indian Movement founder Russell Means attends a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

American Indian Movement founder Russell Means attends a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. Means met with local activist Tim Lame Woman as well as other tribal members. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

Rock Red Cherries listens to a prayer as American Indian Movement founder Russell Means attends a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. Means met with local activist Tim Lame Woman as well as other tribal members. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

Tim Lame Woman delivers a speech as American Indian Movement founder Russell Means attends a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. Means met with local activist Lame Woman as well as other tribal members. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

A pipe belonging to Chief Little Wolf and Army discharge papers from Scout Wild Hog are among items on display as American Indian Movement founder Russell Means attends a ceremony honoring Cheyenne Chiefs Little Wolf, Dull Knife and Wild Hog at the Lame Deer cemetery Wednesday. Means met with local activist Tim Lame Woman as well as other tribal members. (LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff)

 

Media: Chiefs praised for their fight for freedom

Our movement was covered in the Billings Gazette:

Chiefs praised for their fight for freedom
By BECKY SHAY
Of The Gazette Staff

LAME DEER – There was a tremor of emotion in Tim Lame Woman’s voice as he stood at the foot of the graves of the Northern Cheyenne chiefs who led their people out of captivity and home to Montana.

The atrocities the American government brought down on the Cheyenne when they were exiled “hurts like it was yesterday,” he said.

“It was a complete attempted genocide of our people by this country, by America,” Lame Woman said.

During a memorial observance Wednesday at the graves of Chief Dull Knife and Chief Little Wolf… [Read More]

 

Media: Activist urges Indians to keep culture

Russell Means in Lame Deer:

Activist urges Indians to keep culture

American Indian Movement founder visits reservation
By BECKY SHAY
Of The Gazette Staff

LAME DEER – American Indian activist Russell Means brought his message of freedom to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation this week.

Means started his talk Wednesday with a story about visiting Mohawk country in the northeast United States. A group of blonde-haired, blue-eyed children ran up to him and started talking in Mohawk, which Means doesn’t speak.

One of the children looked up at the brown-skinned man with his long black braids and said, “Aren’t you Indian?” Means said “yes,” and the child asked him, “Why don’t you talk Indian?” [Read More, also check out the photo gallery]