Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

Mission of Wounded Knee activists continues 50 years later with children, grandchildren

The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert.

Legacy of activism lives on 50 years after Wounded Knee occupation

Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation, which pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism, still run deep.

Legacy of activism lives on 50 years after Wounded Knee occupation

Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation, which pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism, still run deep.

Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights.

Legacy of activism lives on 50 years after Wounded Knee occupation

Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation, which pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism, still run deep.

50 years on, legacy of Wounded Knee uprising lives in indigenous resistance

As many Native Americans on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the militant occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, participants in the 1973 uprising and other activists linked the deadly revolt to modern-day Indigenous resistance, from Standing Rock to the #LandBack movement.On February 27, 1973 around 300 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), seething from centuries of injustices ranging from genocide to lenienc…