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1988
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American Experience
We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee 21 Season 9 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had seized the few major buildings in town and police had cordoned off the area. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievancesโsome going back more than 100 yearsโthe protesters captured the world's attention for 71 gripping days.
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