Long Reads: The Wounded Knee Uprising w/ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

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Fifty years ago, a group of Native Oglala Lakota and their supporters occupied a small village called Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Wounded Knee was the site of a notorious massacre in 1890, when US cavalry killed nearly 300 Lakota people. Local spiritual leaders and civil rights activists called in the American Indian Movement, or AIM, to support the occupation. It resulted in a siege that pitted AIM against US Marshals, the FBI, and a private militia known as the GOON squad. But the takeover also inspired a wave of international support and solidarity.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, activist and author of books including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and Blood on the Border, spoke with Long Reads producer Conor Gillies about the legacy of the Wounded Knee uprising.

Find Roxanne's piece, "'Indian' Wars," excerpted from An Indigenous Peoples' History, here: https://jacobin.com/2014/09/indian-wars/

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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0:36.8	topics and thinkers.
0:38.7	My name is Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting
0:43.6	the show.
0:44.6	It's now 50 years since the group of Native Americans and their supporters occupied a small
0:50.2	village called Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation and said Dakota.
0:55.7	Wounded Knee was the site of a notorious massacre by the U.S. cavalry in the 19th century.
1:01.2	Local leaders and civil rights activists called in the American Indian movement, or AIM,
1:05.7	to support the occupation.
1:08.1	Vernon Bellacourt, one of the AIM leaders, spoke to reporters at the time.
1:13.6	We have exhausted our diplomatic efforts, we have negotiated, we have pleaded, our people
1:18.1	have been going to Washington for years, and nothing changes, the conditions get worse.
1:22.5	So what is happening in Wounded Knee when a declaration of sovereignty was made, it's
1:26.9	a start.
1:27.9	It's a start of a revolution amongst Indian people today, not only a revolution is taking
1:32.4	place within our own existing tribal form of government on the reservations, but we
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