Wounded knee siege 1973 extra credit

Many years later there was another event at wounded knee, occurring after a program called AIM (American Indian Movement) was created by 200 American Indians community members who came together to fix the issues that were going on everyday in the Indian community. This program was set up in a way that could gain government power and attempt to fix the issues our country has forced upon the Native American Indians. Some of the leaders of this program were Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt. These leaders unknowingly got the worlds attention when they entered the conflict, Siege at Wounded Knee on February 27, 1973. This siege was led by armed American Indians who wanted to take back control of the once Lakota owned land. The US armed forces came into this and it was a battle that the Indians won and reclaimed the land that they had not owned in so many years. They ruled themselves free from government control. After only 71 days though, this siege came to a hault after ove a thousand arrests and many unsolved murders and other crimes. Wounded Knee Creek, is a popular area of historic Native American events and the area of many battles between Native American tribes and the US army against Indians.