American Experience
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Season 21 · Episode 9 ·
We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee
On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had seized the few major buildings in town and police had cordoned off the area. The occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances—some going back more than 100 years—the protesters captured the world's attention for 71 gripping days.
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Episode 9 of season 21 of American Experience: “We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee”. Aired 2009-05-11. Watch it online free on ZapFlix.