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unbalanced, Tilsen said.
• Tilsen was legal coordinator for the Wounded Knee Legal Defense and Offense Committee, the team who successfully represented American Indian Movement activists Russell Means and Dennis Banks during a nine-month trial in St. Paul, Minn.
• He said he was not invited to the conference and only found out about it through family members living on Pine Ridge.
• "If I had been invited to participate, I would either make it possible to participate or I would have found someone who had the time and energy and ability to participate who had spent a substantial amount of time with the defense," Tilsen said. "I just think it's bad to only have one side represented and pretend that is going to be a fair presentation of the investigations and prosecutions in light of the fact that the

prosecutions had so few."
• Conference organizer Harry Thompson, executive director for the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College, said the lineup of speakers is well-rounded, noting that the list includes prosecutors, FBI agents, journalists who covered the siege, witnesses and participants, including Means.
• Most presenters asked to participate after learning about the conference, Thompson said. Only Gienapp,

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