The American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee | We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee

Learn how members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in 1973 in this gallery adapted from We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. The 71-day occupation captured the attention of the entire nation, bringing Indigenous people’s rights to the nation’s attention for the first time in U.S. history.