ADDITIONAL INFO ON GOV. JANKLOW:
In October 1974, Janklow ran
for South Dakota Attorney General against his boss, incumbent Kermit Sande.
The Wounded Knee publicity had frightened the conservative electorate,
and Janklow's campaign fires were fueled by promises of "law and order"
in the face of "AIM lawlessness". Sande, on the defensive attacked Janklow
with charges of personal immorality. Sande claimed that Janklow had
been brought before juvenile court in 1955 at the age of sixteen for allegedly
having assaulted a seventeen year old girl in Moody County, south Dakota.
Although the juvenile records were confidential, Sande repeated in public
the rumor that the juvenile offense had been rape. Janklow said that
the juvenile petition against him was dismissed, and that the alleged offense
was not rape. "It didn't go that far," he told the media, "but it was preliminary
to that sort of thing." He later regretted that statement,
and said it was merely a cynical wisecrack intended to counteract lies
being spread about him.
Then, on October 16, AIM leader
Dennis Banks publicly accused Janklow of another rape charge. According
to Banks, in 1966 Janklow, working for the office of Economic Development
on Rosebud reservation,had been accused of rape by fifteen year old Jancita
Eagle Deer, the Janklow family babysitter. Eagle Deer alleged that
Janklow had raped her at gunpoint while giving her a ride home. ....
Jancita was mysteriously murdered
in the 1970's while in the company of known FBI informant Douglas Durham-shortly
after Jancita publicly denounced Janklow.
Rosebud Tribal court docket
number CIV.74-2840
opinion issued by Judge Gonzales
Rosebud Tribal court, October
31, 1974
"the court is satisfied that
the rape allegations against Janklow are properly for the purpose of the
hearing held today {to determine whether or not charges should be brought}
too warrant disbarment."
The FBI covered this up
by issuing directives that no investigation files were to be released to
the tribal court..and simultaneously cleared Janklow of the charges.
Excerpted from Blood of the
Land, The Government and Corporate War against the American Indian Movement,
by Rex Wehler, pp.15-126 |
