what happened in the wounded knee town
On February 28, 1973, AIM leaders Russell Means (Oglala Sioux) and Carter Camp , together with 200 activists and Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux) of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who opposed Oglala tribal chairman Richard Wilson, occupied the town of Wounded Knee in protest against Wilson's administration, as well as against the federal government's persistent failures to honor its treaties with Native American nations.