The American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee | We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee

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American Experience AMEX GBH WGBH We Shall Remain Wounded Knee South Dakota Indigenous People Native Americans Indians 1973 American Indian Movement AIM FBI protest Indian Boarding Schools Indian Reservations tribes Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 Siege at Wounded Knee Wounded Knee Occupation Pine Ridge Reservation Indigenous Peoples news media United States U.S. History Collection U.S. history us history history social studies American history ushist22
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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The American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee | We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee

Learn how members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in 1973 in this gallery adapted from We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. The 71-day occupation captured the attention of the entire nation, bringing Indigenous people's rights to the nation’s attention for the first time in U.S. history.
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