Editing Sioux (section)

===1970s: Wounded Knee incident===
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[[Image:Wounded Knee AIM veterans.jpg|thumb|350px|Wounded Knee AIM veterans (2013)]]
Conflicting political values from "traditionalists" against the new form of government promoted through the [[Indian Reorganization Act]] created long-lasting tensions on the reservations.<ref name="Reinhardt 2007">{{cite book | last=Reinhardt | first=Akim | title=Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee | publisher=Texas Tech University Press | location=Lubbock | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-89672-601-7 | oclc=71004236 }}</ref> The accusations of corruption by tribal leaders would lead to the [[Wounded Knee incident]] which began on February 27, 1973, when the town of [[Wounded Knee, South Dakota]] was seized by followers of the [[American Indian Movement]] (AIM). The occupiers controlled the town for 71 days while various state and federal law enforcement agencies such as the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] and the [[United States Marshals Service]] laid siege.

The members of AIM were protesting what they said was the local corrupt government, along with federal issues affecting Indian reservation communities, as well as the lack of justice from border counties. Native Americans from many other communities, primarily urban areas, mobilized to come and join the occupation. The FBI dispatched agents and [[US Marshals]] to cordon off the site. Later a higher-ranking DOJ representative took control of the government's response. Through the resulting siege that lasted for 71 days, twelve people were wounded, including an FBI agent left paralyzed. In April at least two people died of gunfire, after which the Oglala Lakota called an end to the occupation). Additionally, two other people, one of them an African American civil rights activist, [[Ray Robinson (activist)|Ray Robinson]], went missing, and are believed to have been killed during the occupation, though their bodies have never been found.<ref name="Missing Persons of America">{{cite web |url=http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2013/07/ray-robinson-whatever-happened-to-civil.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161344/http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2013/07/ray-robinson-whatever-happened-to-civil.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 26, 2014 |title=Ray Robinson: Whatever happened to the civil rights activist at Wounded Knee? |work=Missing Persons of America |date=15 July 2014 |access-date=22 August 2014 }}</ref><ref name="The Grio">{{cite web |url=http://thegrio.com/2014/02/20/fbi-confirms-activist-ray-robinson-was-killed-in-south-dakota-in-1973/#s:ray-robinson-widow |title=FBI confirms activist Ray Robinson was killed in South Dakota in 1973 |work=The Grio |first=Dirk |last=Lammers |date=20 February 2014 |access-date=22 August 2014 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725045625/https://thegrio.com/2014/02/20/fbi-confirms-activist-ray-robinson-was-killed-in-south-dakota-in-1973/#s:ray-robinson-widow |url-status=live }}</ref> Afterward, 1200 American Indians were arrested. Wounded Knee drew international attention to the plight of American Indians and AIM leaders were tried in a Minnesota federal court. The court dismissed their case on the basis of governmental prosecutorial misconduct.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/93aim.html |title=American Indian Movement (AIM) |publisher=Minnesota History |access-date=2010-09-26 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012122552/http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/93aim.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, [[Leonard Peltier]] was convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.