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Family hopes for return of Black civil rights activist who disappeared at Wounded Knee
Tribal groups plan a phased non-invasive search using ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to locate Perry Ray Robinson’s remains and identify other graves at Wounded Knee.
- On May 5 the Rosebud-based Sicangu Treaty Council passed legislation supporting a conservative, non-invasive search for Perry Ray Robinson at Wounded Knee and referred it to the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
- After the FBI closed its investigation recently and told the family Robinson was buried in an unknown grave, Cheryl Buswell-Robinson has sought her husband's return for decades.
- The first level of the search would deploy cadaver dogs trained to distinguish ancient versus modern remains and ground-penetrating radar to locate targets noted in FBI documents, followed by rebar probes inserted between 6 and 8 feet for scenting, as Robinson is believed buried vertically.
- Approval hinges on tribal legislatures and the Oglala Tribal Historic Preservation Office, whose consent is necessary to recover remains that could reveal 1890 and 1973 graves and support preservation.
- Recently, organizers and descendants increased momentum toward a search as Oceti Sakowin activists and Wounded Knee descendants bring the family closer to locating Robinson amid the Wounded Knee Sacred Sites Act covering 40 acres, which advocates say won’t impede the planned search.
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Family hopes for return of Black civil rights activist who disappeared at Wounded Knee
RAPID CITY, S.D. — After a half-century of uncertainty, all Cheryl Buswell-Robinson wants is the body of her husband, Perry Ray Robinson, to be returned. In March 1973, Robinson called home to Alabama from a conference in Taos, New Mexico, to tell his wife he planned to join the American Indian Movement’s takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation where tribal members were protesting then-tribal president Dick Wilson. “He thought it …
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