Obit Blogging

Calvin Jumping Bull, owner of the Jumping Bull Property which was the location of a 1975 shootout between Indians and two FBI agents, has died.  From the Rapid City Journal:

Calvin Jumping Bull, who died Friday, will be remembered for his family's connection to the battle between the American Indian Movement and the FBI that resulted 30 years ago in the deaths of two FBI agents on the Jumping Bull property near Oglala.

But Jumping Bull's talents as a Lakota instructor are more notable, his friend said.      

A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Jumping Bull, 75, served for 21 years as a full-time Indian studies faculty member at Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. ...

Jumping Bull's ties to the infamous incident June 26, 1975, are not direct, but the connection lasted throughout his life, The Associated Press reported last month. Although he was away at college when it happened, Jumping Bull lived his last years at the ranch where, 30 years ago, tension between the American Indian Movement and federal government resulted in the deaths of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler.

The men were shot in the heat at point-blank range after being injured in a shootout, according to the story.