Wounded+Knee+Siege

= Wounded Knee Siege 1973 =

====In 1973 a group of Native Americans lead by members of AIM invaded the town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota to protest against the Oglala Sioux Nation president, Richard Wilson and to abolish his untrustworthy tribal government. The Native Americans siezed a church on the Pine Ridge Reservation and took hostages to attract attention to their protest. The AIM Native Americans demanded the government to hold hearings for treaties made between Americans and Native Americans that were broken and to investigate the treatment of the government towards Native Americans. During the Native Americans' occupation of Wounded Knee there were gunfights between them and government agents that killed several people. After seventy days of occupation the Native Americans surrendered.====



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