GO rD hIll 500 Years of Indigenous resistance
campment resulted in a fire-fight in which
two FBI agents and an Oglala, Joseph
Stuntz, were shot dead. Although
Stuntz’ death was never investi-
gated, nor were the many other
killings of Oglala traditional-
ists and AIM members during
this period, the FBI launched
a campaign to imprison AIM
members for the two dead
agents. Eventually Leonard
Peltier would be convicted of
the killings in a trial that showed
nothing more than that the FBI had
fabricated evidence and testimony.
In the same year as the liberation of
Wounded Knee, AIM was also established in Canada following the Cache
Creek highway blockade in BC. The blockade was against poor housing
conditions on a nearby Native reserve. In November of that year, the Indian
Affairs office in Kenora, Ontario was occupied for one day by Ojibways.
The following year, members of the Ojibway Warrior’s Society and AIM
initiated an armed occupation of Anicinabe Park, near Kenora, from July
22 to August 8. Two months earlier, Mohawks from Akwesasne and Kah-
nawake had occupied Moss Lake in upper state New York, reclaiming and
renaming the area Ganienkeh—Land of the Flint, the traditional name for
the Kanienkehake, People of the Flint. After a shooting incident between
White vigilantes and Mohawks, police insisted on entering Ganienkeh to
investigate but were refused entry. As the threat of a police raid increased,
Natives, including some veterans from Wounded Knee, rushed to Ganien-
keh. Bunkers were built and defensive lines established. In the end, police
withdrew (in 1977, the Mohawks agreed to leave Moss Lake in exchange for
land in Clinton County, which is closer to Kahnawake and Akwesasne).
On September 14, 1974, the “Native People’s Caravan” left Vancou-
ver, initiated by Natives who had participated in the Anicinabe Park oc-
cupation. Similar to the Trail of Broken Treaties, the Caravan demanded
recognition and respect for treaty and aboriginal rights, settlement of
Native land claims, an end to the Indian Act, and an investigation of the