surveilance since at least as early as February 28. Charges were unceremoniously dropped, but not before they had been used to "neutralize" this opponent on Dick Wilson's behalf. 71. Burnette and Koster, op. cit., pp. 239-40 72. Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., p.115. Also see Lundquist, John, "Guarded optimisms latest report from Wounded Knee," Rapid City Journal, March 16, 1973, p. 1 73. Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., pp. 114-15. 74. Quoted in ibid, p. 115. 75.Quoted in Weyler, op. cit., p.83. 76. The best account of this period of escalation is found in Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., pp118-23. Betsy Dudley, was arrested by the FBI on May 7, 1973, whikle attempting to leave Wounded Knee, her notes were impounded. Tom Cook had much the same experience. [following paragraph is bracketed in handwritten in the left margin captioned vertically, also handwritten is: "Agents of Repression Pg 424 Author Ward Churchill" 77. Quoted in ibid. pp. 124-25. Author Ward Churchill was arrested and jailed in Chadron, Nebras- ka, en route to Wounded Knee on March 21, 1973.[handwritten underline] He was held for approximately 50 hours on a "routine warrant check,"requested from local police relative to all out-of-state traffic "apparently headed to Pine Ridge" by the FBI on or about March 20. Upon release from jail, he was ordered to drive southward, away from Pine Ridge, and was followed by a Nebraska state police car all the way to the Wyoming line. Of related interest is "Wounded Knee support rally forms," Rapid City Journal, March 17, 1973. p. 3 78. Brand, Johanna, The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash, James Lorimer & Company, Publishers, Toronto (Ontario), 1978, p. 41. 79. Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, pp. cit., pp. 124-25. 80. Quoted in ibid, p.41. 81. Interview with Dennis Banks, op. cit. 82. Burnette and Koster, op. cit., p. 243; Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., p- 128. Many Wounded Knee veterans contend that Grimm was actually hit by a GOON round fired from behind his position. 83. Quoted in Weyler, op. cit., p. 81 84. Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., pp. 124-25. 85. Burnette had been meeting with Nixon administration representative Bradley Patterson throughout the siege (Burnette and Koster, op. cit., pp. 236-37; Means is quoted at pp. 241-42). 86. Ibid, p. 130 87. Akwesasne Notes, Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., p. 130. 88. For example, ibid, p. 123, offers the account of Leroy Little Ghost, a Hunkpapa from the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota, who was recruited on March 3, 1973 to infiltrate AIM inside Wounded Knee and to relay information to Federal forces at a compesation of $2.000 to $20,000 depending on how well he did. It is doubtful that Little Ghost was ever paid for his services, Insofar as he shortly "defected" to AIM. 89. Ibid, p. 130 90. The playing of the tape is covered in ibid., p. 151. An excellant example of the government view being regurgitated verbatim as "analysis" by the press may be found in Ciccone, F. Richard, "The anatomy of a takeover at Wounded Knee," Rapid City Journal, March 18, 1973, p. 1. 91. Transcript quoted in ibid., p. 145. 92. Quoted in ibid., p 145. 93. The summarization is taken from Burnette and Koster, op. cit., pp 244-45. 94. Quoted in ibid., p. 245. 95. Voices From Wounded Knee, op. cit., p. 148.