Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, May 1973, a story appeared in the New York Times, and I'm just going to read a little bit from it.

It reads,

The second battle of Wounded Knee ended today.

After 70 days, two deaths, numerous injuries, countless meetings,

bureaucratic bickering, and the last-minute gunfight, more than 100

militants lay down their arms and surrendered this occupied reservation town to weary federal officials.

The longest lasting civil disorder in 200 years of US history comes to an end after two native

activists lost their lives in the conflict and a federal agent was shot and paralyzed.

So that's how the New York Times reported on this moment and this was of course the wounded knee occupation

a critical moment in the modern Native American rights struggle when activists seized

and occupied that town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

70 days of internal fighting, fighting with the police and

local officials tons of media attention and celebrities descending upon this

town. So let's talk about Wounded Knee 1973 here here as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Welsley.

Hello there.

Hello Jody.

Hey there.

One place to start is just kind of the paint the visual picture right I mean 1973 lots of reporting lots of images still floating around but you know it is truly an occupation of a town

I mean Wounded Knee not a coincidence that they chose that spot because that was a

resident spot but at this point there's you know a main street and there's buildings and so forth and

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