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FD-350 (Rev.7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 2 Indian activists injured by gunmen in S. Dakota fracas (Indicate page, name of United PressInternational newspcper, city and state.) WAGNERSD y AmericanIndianMove- ment. - co-founder--,Russell A-15 ARIZONA REPUBLIC Means and anotherAIM PHOENIX, ARIZONA Ieader were shot and-seri- A source in Wagner ously wounded early jquoted.an.unidentified Wednesday on-the-Yank- witness"as saying Means! ton Sioux Indian Reserva- and Thiomas stopped.in Stion: Police later. arrested Sfront of the house in a car. five suspects in-Sioux in which theywere riding CityIowa. Two of. them with two women... were chargedwithat- men emerged'from the. Means was shot in the house and started firing. Jabdomen: His- companion, gums into the air. When John Thomas,was.hit in one of the women jumped? the neck and chest. Both out of thecar and started Imen were: taken-toa. running, one of the armed TO Yanktonhospitalwhere - men pointed a.gun at her.. they underwent surgery.. BUREAU 76 .Thomas got out of the. .U.S.Attorney William Clayton of SiouxFalls, . car, the witness said, and S.D.,charged suspects told the man that.ifhe Mike Weston and James wanted to shoot someone, i..d Weddell with attempted he.could shoot him. murder, according to the Date: 5/6/76 The-other woman start- Bureau of Indian Affairs Edition: MORNING : ed running .and .one of the. in Wagner and the Feder- armed men shot.at. her. Author: alBureau of Investigation Then one or more of the Editor: HAROLD K. MILKS I Minneapolis. Three. other suspects, men shot -Thomas and Title: RUSSELL MEANS Frances Allen Archam. Means. beau, Terry Provost and A hospital spokesman a juvenile who was not said the small caliber bul- let that hit.Means missedh Character: identified, were charged with being accessorie: [all vital organs. His condi-] or ]after the fact in aiding tion was listed as satisfac Classification: 105-3458 (the escape. ... Itory and Thomas was list Submitting Office: PHOENIX The five were being ed in serious condition, '. Being Investigated neld in the Sioux City jail Mhhnms mnn manns pending arraignment. were on the reservation to today before a U.S. Iplan anAmerican Indian 105-3 458-3 magistrate in Sioux Falls, treaty conference sched- the FBI said. Juled for June. Thomas, of SEARCHED INDEXED The shooting occurred lOklahoma, is coordinator. SERIALIZED SFNED. about 4 a.m. outside a of the conference. MAY1 1.1976 Indian .housing distric home in Wagner, th FBL -PHOENIX main community on ths reservation..