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Indians mark shoot-out with FBI
Thirty years ago this weekend two FBI agents were shot dead at the height of months of unrest on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. On Sunday supporters of the man convicted of being the shooter, Leonard Peltier, will hold a rally to focus on his "unjust imprisonment".
On the morning of 26 June 1975 two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ron Williams, drove onto a property on the Pine Ridge Ind
ian reservation in South Dakota.
By the end of the day the two agents were dead, along with a member of the American Indian Movement (Aim), which considered the so-called Jumping Bull property a stronghold.
The shoot-out followed months of tension and violence on the re
servation between Aim activists and the tribal government, supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and FBI.
Aim members referred to this period as the "Reign of Terror" and claim that Indian traditionalists and activists were persecuted by tribal police and FBI officers.