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On February 27, 1973, some 250 Sioux Indians led by members of the American Indian Movement converged on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, launching the famous 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/27/13-images-remembering-occupation-wounded-knee-159145: American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee, Sioux Indian, Lakota Sioux, Trail Of Tears, Wilde Westen, Native American Photos, Native Pride, Native American Peoples

Description of Harlington Wood, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, third row center without hat, is escorted into the village of Wounded Knee by militant Indians of the AIM group, March 13, 1973. Second row, left, wearing mackinaw is Russell Means, one of the AIM leaders and Carter Camp, another leader walks beside Wood. Wood was sent to the reservation in an effort to find a solution to the problem. (AP Photo)

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Photo taken shortly after the massacre/battle, showing defeated Sioux chiefs guarded by a cavalry soldier.[For WOUNDED KNEE, Part I, The Closing Frontier, click here.]What happened on the snow-crusted plain near Wounded Knee Creek at day-break, De...

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"Wounded Knee Massacre" A censored Masterpiece by Artist Oscar Howe, a Lakota Yanktonai Sioux Ojibway. "There is much more to Indian Art than pretty, stylized pictures..There was also power and strength and individualism (emotional and intellectual insight)..Are we to be..put on reservations and treated like a child, and only the White Man knows what is best for him?" (Oscar Howe) Oscar Howe, Coat Room, Art Contrast, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee, Oglala Lakota, Painting Studies, Vibrant Paintings, Us Army Soldier

"Wounded Knee Massacre" A censored Masterpiece by Artist Oscar Howe, a Lakota Yanktonai Sioux Ojibway. "There is much more to Indian Art than pretty, stylized pictures..There was also power and strength and individualism (emotional and intellectual insight)..Are we to be..put on reservations and treated like a child, and only the White Man knows what is best for him?" (Oscar Howe)

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