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4 services planned for former AIM activist Means
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In a Jan. 31, 1989 file photo, Russell Means, who heads the American Indian Movement, (AIM) testifies before a special investigative committee of the Senate Select Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in several Hollywood films, died early Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 at his ranch Zzxin Porcupine, S.D., Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Solomon said. He was 72. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)
Posted 10/24/12
KYLE, S.D. — Russell Means' family is planning four services to honor the former American Indian Movement activist and actor.
Means, an Oglala Sioux Tribe member, died at home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Monday. He was 72.
There will be four services because the number is significant in Lakota culture, representing, among other things, the four seasons. The first ceremony to honor Means is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Little Wound School in Kyle, on the Pine Ridge reservation. Three more ceremonies will take place next year. One will be at the site of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. Another will be at Wind Cave National Park.
Means' ashes are to be privately scattered Thursday in the Black Hills, which are sacred to the Lakota.