On June 26, 1975, FBI Special Agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler began to follow a car on the Pine Ridge Reservation that they believed carried a passenger who was wanted for armed robbery.
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What happened next is a matter of dispute. One of the agents called for help, saying he was under fire from three separate locations. When other law enforcement arrived, both agents were dead.
The car contained four Native American activists: Darrelle Butler, Robert Robideau, Leonard Peltier, and Jimmy Eagle. It was Peltier’s car that the agents were following. Peltier was wanted on a warrant in Wisconsin for the attempted murder of a police officer.
Law enforcement flooded the reservation as other officers came under fire. It seems probable that Williams
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