Guards at the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council roadblock near Wounded Knee, South Dakota took time off Thursday for a game of horseshoes. The roadblock was set up to prevent supplies from reaching American Indian Movement militants holding the hamlet.

On verso: date stamps and newspaper caption affixed.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• American Indian Movement
• Civil Rights Movements
• Games
• Guards
• Injustice
• Native American sovereignty
• Oglala
• Oglala Sioux Tribal Council
• Pine Ridge Reservation
• Racial Discrimination
• Recreation
• Rifles
• Roadblocks
• Supplies
• Wounded Knee
• Wounded Knee Indian Occupation

• Image Dimensions: 4 7/8 x 8 13/16 in. (12.38 x 22.38 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (14.61 x 25.08 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin