Oglala Lakota activists and American Indian Movement supporters began occupying Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation. They challenged local abuses and demanded that the federal government honour treaties. The 71-day confrontation linked community grievances with sovereignty and land. Indigenous women sustained organizing and medical support, making the struggle broader than its best-known male leaders.
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The Wounded Knee occupation linked local grievances with demands for treaty rights and sovereignty.
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The occupation connected conditions on Pine Ridge with the federal government's obligations to Indigenous peoples.