Wounded Knee Occupation
1973

On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, an estimate of 200 Sioux Native Americans, led by member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days.  Wounded Knee was the site of the 1890 massacre of 200 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry.

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