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1973 Wounded Knee: An armed man stands guard at a Checkpoint
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.21.54 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:23:59+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. They were protesting the murder of an Oglala Lakota man and the failed impeachment of a tribal president that AIM members accused of corruption. The protests escalated into a deadly standoff that lasted 71 days.plain2022-10-28T22:23:59+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49