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home and told her, "This could be the spark that lights the prairie fire."
• "No, it's not. Come home. Please come home," his wife, Cheryl Buswell-Robinson, recalled begging of him.
• The black activist and follower of Martin Luther King Jr. never made it home to Bogue Chitto, Ala. He was declared dead, but his body never was found and little is known about what happened. Not knowing has haunted Buswell-Robinson and the couple's three children for nearly 40 years.
• The United States government handles investigations on reservations. Minneapolis-based FBI spokesman Kyle Loven said the Robinson case is a pending investigation, so federal prosecutors and investigators can't discuss it.
• Buswell-Robinson, 67, flew into Sioux Falls from Detroit on Thursday ahead of a conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1973 American Indian

Movement takeover of the Pine Ridge reservation village of Wounded Knee.
• She's not looking for arrests or prosecutions. She just wants to know where her husband's body is so she can give him a proper burial.
• "People have information as to where his body is buried," she said.
• Two Native Americans were confirmed to have died during the 1973 siege, and rumors of other deaths persist. FBI documents that now are public suggest the possibility of

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