(Tribune News Service) — Fifty years ago Sioux protesters led by members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee — the site of the terrible 1890 massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh ...

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...

Sometime toward the end of the eighteen-eighties, a Paiute holy man named Wovoka had a vision that promised the rebirth and renewal of Indigenous nations on the North American continent. His prophecy ...

Images by the late photographer Dick Bancroft are now permanently displayed at the college after a donation from family members including explorer Ann Bancroft, his daughter. Visitors look at a ...

Members of the American Indian Movement and local Oglala Sioux stand guard outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church after taking control of the town during a 71 day standoff with the FBI and US ...

Courtesy of The Bob Fitch Photography Archive at Stanford University Libraries The Diné Bikeyah Chapter of the American Indian Movement plans to hold a march and prayer service beginning at 9 a.m.

In 1973, hundreds of Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee to demand the US government fulfill its treaties with tribes. The siege galvanized the movement for Indigenous rights ...

Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago this week, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.

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A man holds up a rifle in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement took over the town, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian ...