Wounded knee

Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was seized on February 27, 1973 by nearly 200 activists of the American Indian Movement (AIM).

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)

View photos from the 1973 occupation and photos of Don Cuny who shares his story from the 71 day occupation.

Pledging Allegiance -- Today, perhaps the best place to look is Standing Rock, where an old wound is insisting on its right to heal.

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...

Ghost Dance...incredible that there are pictures

This pin shows that the Europeans killed the Native Americans ruthlessly for resources and land. Europeans also tried to sugar coast their massacre of Native Americans by calling it a 'battle'.

"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)