South Dakota

Bart Savage

Bart Savage, a Vietnam Veterans Against the War national collective member, was arrested with Bill Branson at...

Madonna Thunder Hawk

Released

Madonna Thunder Hawk is an Oohenumpa Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux) organizer who has taken part in nearly ever...

Knute Walstad

Knute Walstad, born in 1871 in Fillmore County, Minnesota, was a Roberts County farmer and 1934 Workers’ and F...

Debra White Plume

Released

Debra White Plume was an Oglala Lakota activist and water protector from the Pine Ridge Reservation. She joine...

John H. Wolf

Released

John H. Wolf was from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. John H. Wolf began serving a five-year prison sentence in Lea...

O

Orville Anderson

Released

Orville Anderson was a farmer from Vermillia, South Dakota. Orville Anderson was the Socialist Party's candida...

E

Emanuel Baltzer

Released

Emanuel Baltzer was the lead defendant among roughly two dozen German-Russian socialist farmers from South Dak...

J

John J. Becker

Released

John J. Becker was a Mennonite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

J

Joseph Bill

Released

Joseph Bill was one of five defendants convicted of attempting to interfere with U.S. Marshals and FBI agents...

J

John Bosses

Released

John Bosses was from Aberdeen, South Dakota. John Bosses was convicted of seditious conspiracy and began servi...

J

John Carlson (Custer protest)

John Carlson was imprisoned in South Dakota following the Custer courthouse protest prosecution.

S

Sioux Casper

Released

Sioux Casper was one of five defendants convicted of attempting to interfere with U.S. Marshals and FBI agents...

N

Nile Cochran

Released

Nile Cochran was a farmer from Moville, Iowa, prosecuted after a shooting at a milk-strike picket line near th...

K

Kenneth Dahl

Kenneth Dahl was imprisoned after the Custer courthouse protest prosecution alongside Sarah Bad Heart Bull and...

J

Jimmy Eagle

Released

Young Oglala man indicted with Leonard Peltier in the June 1975 Pine Ridge FBI-agent deaths case; The Black Pa...

E

E. R. Evans

E. R. Evans was jailed in Sioux Falls amid a campaign against farmers’ struggles. United Farmers League organi...

F

Frank Godlasky

Released

Frank Godlasky was an IWW member, also identified in his court case as Frank Daring, imprisoned in South Dakot...

H

Henry Hackberth

Released

Henry Hackberth was one of seventeen Sisseton farmers actually jailed on rioting charges after a United Farmer...

B

Bert Hanson

Released

Bert Hanson was a Roberts County, South Dakota farmer involved in the United Farmers League's resistance to fa...

J

J. M. Hanson

Released

J. M. Hanson was one of seventeen Sisseton farmers actually jailed on rioting charges after a United Farmers L...

R

Richard Harris (Greenpeace)

Richard Harris was a Greenpeace climber arrested during the October 22, 1987 acid-rain banner protest at Mount...

W

William G. Head

Released

William G. Head was from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. William G. Head was sentenced to three years in prison. He...

P

Paul Hempel

Paul Hempel, a German-born, unnaturalized minister in South Dakota, was interned in January 1918 after an unde...

W

Walter Heynacher

Released

Walter Heynacher was from Aberdeen, South Dakota. Walter Heynacher was sentenced to five years in prison. He s...