Family Wants Search for Activist’s Remains at Site of Wounded Knee Occupation

Family Wants Search for Activist’s Remains at Site of Wounded Knee Occupation


The council passed legislation in support of the search on May 5 and referred the group to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, as the land Robinson is buried on is within the tribe’s reservation boundaries. Robinson, 31 at the time, was in the area working for the National Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and Buswell-Robinson, who was 21 and born and raised in Wisconsin, decided she’d try her hand at volunteering with the movement at the state’s capitol, Madison. In 2014, the family was told by the FBI that Robinson had been killed at Wounded Knee, but other than that, the case is closed, leaving it up to the family and advocates to try and bring some sense of a closure.

Author: Amelia Schafer


Published at: 2025-12-29 21:18:46

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