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inson or anyone else during Wounded Knee.
• "We never conducted any, like, major search for anybody that was missing, just except by word of mouth, 'Did you guys ever see this or that?' That's as far as I know and that's as far as it went," he said.
• Clyde Bellecourt, another AIM co-founder, said he wasn't in Wounded Knee in April 1973. He left a month or so earlier to form the Wounded Knee Legal Defense-Offense Committee and act as AIM's spokesman.
• "I've heard some ru

mors about this Robinson thing, but supposedly that happened a long time after I was gone, if anything did happen," he said. "Nobody's ever talked to me about it implicating anybody or even said it's happened."
• Perry Ray Robinson Jr. was born Sept. 12, 1937. He was in Washington in 1963 for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, and attended the 1964 funeral of three white civil rights workers killed in Mississippi.
• In 1968, Robinson was among the protesters who set up Resurrection City, a camp at the Washington Mall.
• Robinson likely was at Wounded Knee for just a day, but Buswell-Robinson is surprised so many AIM members don't remember him. The personable 6-foot-2 black man with a deep baritone voice would have stood out on a Midwest American Indian reservation, she said.
• Robinson's nonviolent approach probably was not well received at what was a violent situation, and it's possible AIM members incorrectly suspected he was a federal informant, Buswell-Robinson said. It's also likely he dealt with some racism, she

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