Wounded Knee Occupation - Wikipedia
The Wounded Knee Occupation, also known as Second Wounded Knee, began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota (sometimes referred to as Oglala Sioux) and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, United States, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
AP WAS THERE: The occupation at Wounded Knee | AP News
Feb 27, 2023 · Members of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee on Feb. 27, 1973, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Wounded Knee: Massacre, Memorial & Battle ‑ HISTORY
Nov 6, 2009 · Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and representatives of the U.S. government, including the U.S....
History of the Wounded Knee Occupation | TIME
May 8, 2023 · It was overrun one night last week by roughly 200 armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a militant group best known for its week-long occupation of the Bureau of Indian...
AIM occupation of Wounded Knee begins | February 27, 1973 - HISTORY
Feb 9, 2010 · On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 200 members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupy Wounded Knee, the site of the infamous...
On the 50th anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation, a ... - NPR
Feb 27, 2023 · Federal troops block the road near Wounded Knee in March 1973. It's been exactly 50 years since hundreds of Native American activists seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee, kicking off...
Wounded Knee | Massacre, Occupation, Battle, Map,
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 occupation led by the American Indian Movement in 1973.
Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later
Feb 27, 2023 · The occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, began 50 years ago and was one in a string of protests from 1969 to 1973 that pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism.
Occupy Wounded Knee: A 71-Day Siege and a Forgotten Civil Rights Movement
Oct 23, 2012 · On February 27, 1973, a team of 200 Oglala Lakota (Sioux) activists and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized control of a tiny town with a loaded history -- Wounded Knee,...
Wounded Knee and the American Indian Movement
Jul 25, 2024 · On February 27, 1973, hundreds of Indigenous activists arrived in the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, site of the massacre in 1890, in which the US Army killed 300 people, mostly unarmed civilians.