Native Americans seized #WoundedKnee 50 years ago. Here's what 1 reporter remembers

by Rachel Treisman, February 27, 2023

"It's been exactly 50 years since hundreds of #NativeAmerican activists seized the #SouthDakota town of Wounded Knee, kicking off a monthslong occupation that helped galvanize the movement for #IndigenousRights across the U.S.

"On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the #OglalaLakota tribe, led by members of American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the #PineRidge Reservation village — which was also the site of the 1890 massacre in which federal troops killed as many as 300 #Lakota men, women and children.

"The activists set out to protest #corruption in tribal #leadership and highlight the U.S. government's failure to honor Native treaties. They went on to hold the town for 71 days, in what the U.S. Marshals Service calls the 'longest civil disorder' in its history."

#RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #Genocide #NativeAmerican #USA #History

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159630250/wounded-knee-occupation-50th-anniversary

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