February–May 1973

Wounded Knee occupation and federal siege

Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Oglala Lakota and AIM participants

Local opponents of tribal leadership and AIM protested conditions and federal relations at the 1890 massacre site. A prolonged armed confrontation exposed conflicts over sovereignty, policing, and accountability.

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Context / qualification

Internal Oglala political disputes also mattered; avoid presenting a single unified Native position.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10

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