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Published October 23, 2012, 11:43 AM

4 services planned for former AIM activist Means

KYLE (AP) — Family members of Russell Means are planning four services to honor the former American Indian Movement activist.

KYLE (AP) — Family members of Russell Means are planning four services to honor the former American Indian Movement activist.

Means, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, died at his home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Monday. He was 72.

The first ceremony to honor Means is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Little Wound School in Kyle, on the Pine Ridge reservation. Three other ceremonies will take place next year. One will be at the site of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. Another will be at Wind Cave National Park and the last one will be at a location not yet determined.

The number four is significant in the Lakota culture.

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