In February 1973, 200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a pro-native group that included Martinez’s young parents, occupied the site of the Wounded Knee massacre to protest broken ...

Dee Brown’s 1970 book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee remains perhaps the best-known account of American Indian history, but Ojibwe writer David Treuer has long seen problems with its takeaways.

The history of Wounded Knee would spur American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) activists to occupy the site in 1973. They demanded the federal government honor the treaties made with various tribes.

Members of the American Indian Movement gather around Leonard ... Peltier’s conviction came on the heels of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

From the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891 ... by the soldiers and surrounded and finally taken to the Wounded Knee creek, and there at a given time their guns were demanded.

The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it took over the village of Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge ... They also protested at Alcatraz and the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters. For many members ...

Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, became involved in the American Indian Movement (AIM ... to the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973.

He helped resolve the American Indian Movement’s occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972 and of Wounded Knee a year later. The “20 Points”—a summary of issues he drafted during ...