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.
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 ...
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.
A retired FBI agent who was directly involved in the case against former American Indian Movement ... during a 1975 standoff at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ...
President Biden commuted the life sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in a case long disputed by Native American advocates. Why it ...
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 ...
Peltier was active in the American Indian Movement, which has grappled with police brutality and discrimination against Native Americans since the 1960s. The movement grabbed headlines in 1973 when it ...
The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard ...
Film-maker John Sayles draws on astonishing people and events to portray acts of betrayal suffered by Native Americans ...
President Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of activist Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of murdering two FBI agents, within the final hour of his presidency. “The President ...