Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has never gone away.
Mass graves show tragedies endured and depict the darkest deeds of humans. With the wisdom acquired we can only hope to move forward in our morality. Perhaps.
Wounded Knee, hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It was the site of two conflicts, in 1890 and 1973, between Native Americans and the U.S. federal government. On December 29, 1890, approximately 150–300 Lakota men, women, and children were killed by U.S. troops during the Wounded Knee Massacre, an episode that concluded the federal government’s military campaigns against the Plains Indians. Seeking some hope for improving their difficult living conditions, such as hunger and starvation caused by the reduction in the size of their reservation in the late 1880s, the Lakota responded