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| A Sioux activist triumphantly brandishes his AK-47 after repelling FBI agents on the Wounded Knee reservation in South Dakota. A protest by members of the Lakota (Sioux) tribe and the American Indian Movement turned into a deadly 71-day standoff with several federal agencies. |
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| On December 29, 1890, 500 U.S. soldiers fired on approximately 350 Lakota people in Chief Big Foot's Miniconjou band along Wounded Knee Creek. The massacre was generally considered to be the last battle of the Indian Wars waged by the U.S. government. |
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