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1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 4.57.17 PM_thumb.png2022-10-26T23:58:54+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Oglala Sioux Occupy Wounded Knee. Ours Rapide. (Photo by Paul Slade/Paris Match via Getty Images). 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 their supporters surrendered after officials promised to investigate their complaints. Russell Means and Dennis Banks were arrested, but on September 16, 1973, the charges against them were dismissed by a federal judge because of the U.S. government’s unlawful handling of witnesses and evidence. Violence continued on the Pine Ridge Reservation throughout the rest of the 1970s, with several more AIM members and supporters losing their lives in confrontations with the U.S. government. In 1975, two FBI agents and a Native man were killed in a shoot-out between federal agents and AIM members and local residents. In the trial that followed, AIM member Leonard Peltier was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. With many of its leaders in prison, AIM disbanded in 1978. Local AIM groups continued to function, however, and in 1981 one group occupied part of the Black Hills in South Dakota.plain2022-10-26T23:58:54+00:00March 1, 1973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49