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Article: Wounded Knee (1973)
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WOUNDED KNEE (1973)
WOUNDED KNEE (1973).
American Indian activism in the 1960s and 1970s culminated with the occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota by American Indian Movement (AIM) members. In early 1973 AIM leaders responded to requests from members of the Lakota community to enter Wounded Knee and establish an alternative political community within the Lakota Nation. Residents opposed the tribal government of Chairman Richard "Dick" Wilson, charging that Wilson abused and overextended his power by placing the tribal police force under his direct command and using violence and terror on community members who opposed his goals.
AIM had gained ...
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... ... of armed American Indian Movement members occupied Wounded Knee -- population 60 ... chairman of the American Indian Movement, said the standoff ... crush the American Indian Movement," Banks said. "At Wounded Knee, I found out how ...
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