#historyonleo #onthisday On February 27th 1973 activists of American Indian Movement, mainly members of Oglala Lakota tribe, occupy town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in order to protest US policy towards Native Americans and corruption within Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The town, chosen for its symbolic value due to being site of infamous 1890 massacre, is afterwards besieged by FBI agents backed by US military. The standoff last for weeks, during which both sides occasionally exchange fire and ends with truce after death of two activists.