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incident at Oglala  

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  • The “Incident at Oglala” is a phrase that describes the shooting deaths of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, at the Jumping Bull Compound on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975, near the town of Oglala, South Dakota. The event resulted in the arrest, trial, and conviction of Leonard Peltier, an Anishnabe Lakota. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Oglala, Incident at]

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