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The Wounded Knee Occupation, also known as Second Wounded Knee, began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota (sometimes referred to as Oglala Sioux) and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, United States, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Leader in Wounded Knee Occupation Ellen Moves Camp (born 1931) [ 1 ] was an Oglala woman who played a critical role in activism for Indians in America. [ 2 ] Her name became known when Dick Wilson , a chairman elected to oversee their reservation, started heavily persecuting the Native Americans that lived there. [ 3 ]
Wesley Charles Bad Heart Bull was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota on 10 June 1952. [1] He was the middle brother of Verlyn Dale 'Butch' Bad Heart Bull (b. 14 July 1949) and Vincent Eli Bad Heart Bull, Jr. (b. 9 March 1955), and older brother to Trina Lynn Bad Heart Bull (b. 5 January 1959), Henry Gerald Bad Heart Bull (b. 18 May 1957), Imogene "April" Bad Heart Bull (b ...
That night on February 27, 1973, a caravan of cars made its way to Wounded Knee. The subsequent occupation of the village lasted 71 days. During the occupation, Gladys Bissonette worked at the health clinic established there and was one of the negotiators with Kent Frizzell, the Assistant Attorney General selected to negotiate with the occupiers. [5]
In 1973, it became the site of a 71-day standoff between members of the American Indian Movement and federal agents; two tribal members were killed and a federal agent was seriously wounded.
On February 27, 1973, local Oglala protesters and AIM activists seized the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in an armed protest of their failed effort to dislodge Wilson from office. A 71-day standoff with law enforcement commenced, and ultimately Federal forces were sent to the reservation, as Federal law enforcement has jurisdiction ...
In 1973, Nogeeshik and Anna Mae traveled together to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to join AIM activists and Oglala Lakota in what developed as the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, which ended on May 8, 1973. [10] They were married there in a Native ceremony by Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota elder. Anna Mae took Aquash as her ...
Violent conflict on the reservation continued after the resolution of the Wounded Knee incident. In the three years that followed, more than 50 opponents of Wilson allegedly died violently. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] One was Pedro Bissonette, head of the civil rights organization, who had originally invited AIM activists to Pine Ridge.