Editor’s Note:On this day in 1973, the Wounded Knee Occupation began. 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee to demand the removal of tribal chairman Richard Wilson from office on charges of corruption and abuse of opponents. They a...
WOUNDED Knee (S.D.)INDIAN occupation, 1973A reprint of the article 'AIM surrenders at Wounded Knee' appeared in the May 2016 issue of the periodical 'American Bar Association (ABA) ABA Journal.' It discusses the Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Og...
The site again gained national prominence in 1973 through the Wounded Knee Occupation (also known as Second Wounded Knee), a 71-day standoff in the town of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, between members of the American Indian Movement with Sioux allies and federal law enforcement...
Wounded Knee 1973 (Season 1, Episode 2) TV-MA TV Episode | 53 min | Documentary, Crime, History Edit page Add to list Annie Mae risks her life to join a dangerous occupation in South Dakota. The movement is embraced by Hollywood, the government secretly infiltrates AIM at the highest...
On the night of February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars carrying 200 armed Oglala Lakota-led by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists-entered Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation and quickly occupied buildings, cut off access, and took up defensive positions. When federal agents arrived...
Wounded Knee is a settlement on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. government—a massacre in 1890 in which 150-300 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army and an occupati
Wounded Knee in South Dakota was the site of an 1890 Indian massacre by U.S. Army troops, and a deadly 1973 occupation by Native American activists.
简介 On the night of February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars carrying 200 armed Oglala Lakota-led by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists-entered Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation and quickly occupied buildings, cut off access, and took up defensive positions. When federal agents ar...
Just before the Wounded Knee occupation, there was violence at the town of Custer. Juste avant l’occupation de Wounded Knee, des actes de violence avaient eu lieu à Custer. Literature I mean, I read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. J'ai lu " Enterre mon coeur à Wounded Knee "...
whose occupation was war . . ."[11]The record made here should go far to dispel that assertion. The Sioux, and undoubtedly many other tribes as well, had a highly developed governmental system, a religion proclaiming the sacredness of all nature and life, and a disposition toward peacefulness...