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people buried at Wounded Knee during the occupation. There's no mention of Robinson in the FBI correspondence, but two documents reveal the presence of two black people toward the end of the standoff:
• -- On May 5, 1973, a transcript of an interview with a man who claimed to be at Wounded Knee the week prior stated "he heard that one black man and one black woman had recently arrived."
• -- A May 21, 1973, FBI memo reported an Indian woman who left the village on April 20, 1973, counted 200 Indians, 11 whites and two blacks.
• Buswell-Robinson said those two were most likely Robinson and a black woman from Alabama who went with him. The woman returned after the standoff; Robinson didn't.
• Buswell-Robinson filed a missing person's report with the FBI and in October

1974 traveled to Rapid City and the AIM headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., but said she learned nothing about what happened to her husband. In the years after Robinson's disappearance, she corresponded with writer and political activist Barbara Deming.
• In a letter dated Dec. 29, 1974, Buswell-Robinson wrote that she had been told Robinson backpacked into Wounded Knee at night and was later shot for not following an order to immediately report to AIM

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