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1973 Wounded Knee: An armed Native American in a trench takes cover between sandbags
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.31.33 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:32:03+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911An armed Native American in a trench takes cover between sandbags, the Sacred Heart Church in the background, during the Wounded Knee Occupation (also known as Second Wounded Knee) at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 7th March 1973. On 27th February 1973, approximately 200 members of the 'American Indian Movement' (AIM) took the reservation hamlet of Wounded Knee by force, declaring it the 'Independent Oglala Sioux Nation,' the hamlet was immediately surrounded by federal marshals, and a siege began, which ended on 8th May 1973.plain2022-10-28T22:32:03+00:00March 07, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49