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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.
Feb 9, 2010 · The Wounded Knee occupation lasted for a total of 71 days, during which time two Sioux men were shot to death by federal agents and several more were wounded. On May 8, the AIM leaders and...
Feb 27, 2023 · NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later. The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role...
Nov 19, 2021 · EXPLAINER. What really happened at Wounded Knee, the site of a historic massacre. In 1890, U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children in an attempt to suppress a religious...
Feb 27, 2023 · February 27, 2023 10:43 AM. A man holds up a rifle in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement took over the town, starting a 71-day...
Feb 9, 2010 · 1973. American Indian Movement (AIM) ends occupation of Wounded Knee. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) surrender to federal...
The massacre at Wounded Knee, during which soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers. The Ghost Dance.
