Ellen Moves Camp dating history

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Ellen Moves Camp (1931–2008)) was an Oglala woman who played a critical role in activism for Indians in America. Her name became known when Dick Wilson, a chairman elected to oversee their reservation, started heavily persecuting the Native Americans that lived there. Moves Camp and other full-blood elders started to rally their peers and supporting groups such as the American Indian Movement (AIM) to stand up against the government. After further oppression, they met at Calico hall where multiple older women including Moves Camp urged the men to act, and planned a siege at Wounded Knee known as the Wounded Knee Occupation. This siege drew a lot of public attention, and through it, those at Pine Ridge were able to receive funding and support throughout trials and movements made from then on. Moves Camp died in 2008 at the Pine Ridge reservation after dedicating years of her life to raising awareness for her people and instilling movement into those around her.