FILE - FBI agents stop a man at a roadblock near Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) And it helped change the way Native Americans across the country saw themselves, Camp said.

Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. ... Three days later, the overall siege ended. Wounded Knee was evacuated after 71 days of occupation, two deaths, and hundreds of arrests.

Retired Associated Press Photographer Jim Mone sits with prints of his photos taken from his coverage at Wounded Knee, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in Bloomington, Minn.

Ray Robinson left his Alabama home to take part in 1973 South Dakota uprising, but he never returned. He is likely buried on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

CONTEXT: New legislation could mean full ownership of Wounded Knee Massacre site for Lakota tribes The bill, first introduced ...

134 years ago, hundreds of Lakota were massacred at South Dakota's Wounded Knee Creek. The U.S. is reviewing medals awarded to soldiers who took part.

The Defense Department will review the Medals of Honor that were given to 20 U.S. soldiers for their actions in the 1890 battle at Wounded Knee to make sure their conduct merits such an honor.

On July 19, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the review by five experts to examine the actions of 20 soldiers involved in the fighting at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, on Dec. 29, 1890.

Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago Monday, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, 83, sits in her home near Rapid City, South Dakota, Feb. 9, 2023. She was one of the four women medics during the occupation of Wounded Knee, which started on Feb. 27, 1973 ...