Oglala, South Dakota. Wounded Knee 1890-1973

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What is that black spot in south-south Dakota?

The county’s per-capita income makes it the poorest county in the 50 states and District of Columbia. (28 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories are poorer). Oglala Lakota County is the only dry county in South Dakota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglala_Lakota_County%2C_South_Dakota

The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a domestic massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people, by soldiers of the United States Army. It occurred on December 29, 1890

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

The Wounded Knee Occupation began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage. The protest followed the failure of an effort of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (OSCRO) to impeach tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents. Additionally, protesters criticized the United States government’s failure to fulfill treaties with Native American people and demanded the reopening of treaty negotiations to hopefully arrive at fair and equitable treatment of Native Americans.

Oglala and AIM activists controlled the town for 71 days while the United States Marshals Service, FBI agents, and other law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area.

Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but their 1974 case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct, a decision upheld on appeal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident

Street Fighter II: Localization, names & lawsuits.

When Street Fighter II was localized in the United States, Capcom was afraid of a lawsuit from Mike Tyson over a character (Balrog) with his likeness as well as a similar sounding name (Balrog’s Japanese name being “Mike Bison”).

– The boxer is known as Mike Bison in Japan and Balrog in the U.S.
– The Spanish assassin/matador is known as Balrog in Japan and Vega in the U.S.

Fandom – Street Fighter II – Mr Bison
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Greg Girard – Kowloon Walled City

Greg Girard (born 1955) is a Canadian photographer whose work has examined the social and physical transformation in Asia’s largest cities for more than three decades.

Greg Girard – Wikipedia

The full gallery can be seen here and the book can be purchased here.

Updated and expanded new volume, picking up where “City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City”, published in 1993, left off.

The Kowloon Walled City was a singular Hong Kong phenomenon: 33,000 people living in over 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, built without the contributions of a single architect, ungoverned by Hong Kong’s safety and health regulations, covering one square city block in a densely populated neighborhood near the end of the runway at Kai Tak airport. In collaboration with Ian Lambot, I spent five years photographing and becoming familiar with the Walled City, its residents, and how it was organized. So seemingly compromised and anarchic on its surface, it actually worked -and to a large extent, worked well. The Walled City was torn down in 1992 but the photographs, oral histories, maps and essays in our updated new book, released in 2014, provide the most thorough record of daily life in that extraordinary place.

Fron Greg Girard’s website – CITY of DARKNESS REVISITED

I landed Girard’s work while researching on the Kowloon Walled City:

Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned, densely populated settlement in Kowloon City, Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the Walled City became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to the UK by China in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. By 1990, the walled city contained 50,000 residents[1][2] within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by local triads and had high rates of prostitution, gambling and drug abuse.

Kowloon Walled City – Wikipedia
There is an amazing model/sculpture of the Walled City here

The rest of Greg’s work is also outstanding, check it out on his site.

Power Plant, Ordos, China – Greg Girard

La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco (1960) – Max Aub

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Ignacio Jurado Martínez nació en El Cómichi, congregación del municipio de Arizpe, en el estado de Sonora, el 8 de agosto de 1918. Tres años después, la familia bajó al ejido del Paso Real de Bejuco, en el municipio de Rosamorada, en Nayarit. De allí, cuando la mamá enviudó por un “quítame estas pajas”, se trasladaron –eran cinco hijos– a la villa de Yahualica, en Jalisco. Al cumplir los ocho años, Ignacio se largó a Guadalajara donde fue bolero hasta que, a los quince, se descubrió auténtica vocación de mesero. Un lustro después entró a servir en un café de la calle del 5 de Mayo, en la capital de la República.

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