Wounded Knee Occupation (1973)

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The Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) was a 71-day armed standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota residents protested U.S. government treaty violations and tribal corruption, becoming a defining moment of the Red Power movement.


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Red Power movement
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American Indian Movement ("1973 Wounded Knee occupation")
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American Indian Movement ("Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)")
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