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| Trail of Broken Treaties Takeover of BIA headquarters in Washington, Nov. 3, 1972. |
Buried in Time: BIA Takeover Documents Included Sterilizations, Pine Ridge Uranium, and Water Rights
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 15, 2024
Buried in Time: When the Trail of Broken Treaties arrived in Washington and took over the BIA headquarters, the documents discovered in the BIA file cabinets altered the course of history. In the caravans from the west coast and northwest were activists from local Indigenous frontline struggles, from Pit River, Survival American Indian, and Alcatraz.
The BIA documents exposed the secret plan of Oglala President Dick Wilson to turn over one-eighth of tribal land over to the federal government for uranium mining. In the ton of documents taken away in a U-Haul, the documents showed proof of the sterilization of Native women by Indian Health Service doctors.
And there was more.
