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In December 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, around three hundred Lakota (Sioux) were killed by the United States Army, an incident which became symbolic of US military aggression towards Native Americans, and which gave Dee Brown the title and final chapter of his 1970 popular history of the defeat of American Indian armed resistance to white expansion.1 Coincidentally, the 1970s saw a resurgence of Native American resistance in the form of the political activism of the American Indian Movement (AIM), viewed as a terrorist organization by the United States government. The highpoint came in 1973 when AIM occupied Wounded Knee Village for 71 days in protest at the corrupt Tribal Council (called a ‘puppet government’ by the protestors) on Pine Ridge Reservation, once again drawing world attention to this resonantly symbolic site.
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Forsyth, S. (2000). Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post)coloniality and Collaborative (Auto)biography. In: Bery, A., Murray, P. (eds) Comparing Postcolonial Literatures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599550_12
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