"Wounded Knee Massacre" ..Proof we fail to teach about .. genocide of Native Americans.

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2. Did you never read the best seller, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown?

Published in 1970 with a film adaptation in 2007.

The book came out a mere three years following the rise of American Indian Activism and AIM (American Indian Movement). The tragic crack-down on the group by the FBI a few years later led to what I fully believe was the tragic politically motivated murder charge toward Leonard Pelletier who languishes in prison to this day, long beyond normal incarceration for most white defendants- despite decades of attempts to free him

The publication of Brown's book came at the height of the American Indian Movement's activism. In 1969, AIM occupied Alcatraz Island for 19 months in hopes of reclaiming Native American land after the San Francisco Indian Center burned down.[7] In 1973, less than three years after the book's release, AIM and local Oglala and neighboring Sicangu Lakota took part in a 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee[8] in protest of the government of Richard Wilson, the chairman of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which resulted in the death of two Indians and injury of the US Marshal.[9] The resulting 1974 trial ended in the dismissal of all charges due to the uncovering of various incidents of government misconduct.

So, yeah, I know all about this and find it horrific that more do not.