Photographs of the U.S. Government Crushing a Lakota ...
Photographs of the U.S. Government Crushing a Lakota Uprising in 1973 By Jacob Miller. The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. ... The federal ...