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and the previous decade when members of AIM and their backers fought then-tribal President Dick Wilson and his supporters, as well as the FBI, which has jurisdiction on tribal land.
• "It hasn't changed at all, which is sad," said Wendell Bird Head, a tribal member who now lives in Cresent, Iowa, and teaches Lakota. Bird Head was 19 when the standoff started and tried unsuccessfully to get past the road blocks to join in.
• Others, however, are adamant that the occupation brought about greater sovereignty for tribes.
• "Tribes started getting independent and speaking up," said Herb Powless, 76, of Oneida, Wis.
• Powless, a member of the Oneida Nation, traveled to Pine Ridge in the early 70s at the behest of AIM following the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, an Oglala Sioux tribal member killed by four white men.
• Powless later was arrested in Hot Springs after authorities found 600 pounds of dynamite and a variety of weapons in his car. Already a convicted felon, he spent a year in prison in Sioux Falls.
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Storm brings deaths, travel problems, power losses
CARRIE ANTLFINGER,Associated Press
COLLEEN SLEVIN,Associated Press
• MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands of utility customers without power in Michigan.
• "It's the heaviest snow we've received all winter long, as far as the largest quantity and it's wet," said Mark Rupnik, a sheriff's lieutenant in Sheboygan County, Wis., where residents were hit with 15 inches of wet snow over two days -- Tuesday and Wednesday. "This is our big storm for the year, I hope."
• The storm hit a wide swath of the U.S. with wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph and wet snow. It started in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Missouri on Monday night and headed through Colorado, Iowa, northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan on Tuesday into Wednesday, according to Bob McMahon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wisconsin.
• Kansas has been particularly pummeled with snow lately, receiving more than 2 feet of snow in some places over the last week or so. As of Wednesday morning, about 10,000 Kansas customers in mostly eastern counties were still without power, though company officials expected all service to be restored by the end of the day.
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