the cease fire and what would happen after Wounded Knee. She stressed that the reason all the protesters were at Wounded Knee was because the government gave them no other way to get their attention. She stated in one round of negotiations that "we have wrote letters, we have sent phone calls —I know, I did myself. We have made statements to our Congressmen. We asked, we begged, that Pine Ridge be investigated. It never was done." The Wounded Knee occupation finally ended on May 8, 1973. Life After Wounded Knee After Wounded Knee, Gladys went back to Pine Ridge but was put on trial by the U.S. courts. Pedro Bissonette, another activist in the Wounded Knee Occupation and Gladys Bissonette's adopted son, was killed on October 1, 1973. Tragedy struck again on March 30, 1975 when Richard Eagle, Gladys Bissonette's grandson, was killed while playing with a loaded gun kept for protection from the Goon Squad. Gladys died not many years later. References Other Sources: Catty Hernandez, phone interview, 22 Sept. 2010 Oglala Sioux Headquarters, phone interview, 22 Sept. 2010 Oglala people Native Americans' rights activists 20th-century Native American women 20th-century Native Americans 20th-century American people