Smithsonian Magazine

A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...
Democracy Now

American Indian Movement’s Occupation of Wounded Knee Began 50 Years Ago

This week marks 50 years since the start of the American Indian Movement’s 71-day occupation of the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The occupation helped draw ...
10TV.com

Election dispute prompts occupation at Indian tribe's office

CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — Members of an Indian tribe on Friday were in their fourth day of occupying their tribal government headquarters, because the chief they are trying to oust won't step down.
Smithsonian Magazine

A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later | Smithsonian Voices | National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Magazine

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...
The Denver Post

Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the ...