Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) in February 27, 1973, a 71-day uprising began when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to demand treaty negotiations. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage.
The town was promptly surrounded by an army of U.S. personnel. John Sayer, author of "Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials", wrote - "The equipment maintained by the military while in use during the siege included fifteen armored personnel carriers, clothing, rifles, grenade launchers, flares, and 133,000 rounds of ammunition, for a total cost, including the use of maintenance personnel from the National Guard of five states and pilot and planes for aerial photographs, of over half a million dollars."
Although the Department of Justice (DoJ) prohibited media from the site, the occupation received support from the Congressional Black Caucus and prominent public figures, including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda. Angela Davis was turned away by federal forces as an "undesirable person" when she attempted to enter Wounded Knee in March 1973.
Marlon Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, to speak at the 45th Academy Awards on his behalf. She appeared at the March 27th ceremony in traditional Apache clothing and stated that Brando declined the award due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry...and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee".
Tribal leaders called off the occupation after 71 days after the killing of Lawrence "Buddy" Lamont, a local Oglala man, by U.S. sniper fire. The terms of ending the occupation included a mandated meeting at Chief Fools Crow's land to discuss reinstating the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that the Black Hills of South Dakota belonged to the Sioux people.
In the 1980 Supreme Court case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the Court held that the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the nation required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at $1.3 billion as of 2011.
"If we accept the money, then we have no more of the treaty obligations that the federal government has with us for taking our land, for taking our gold, all our resources out of the Black Hills...we’re poor now, we’ll be poorer then when that happens."
former Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls
I hope you nerds have a great next week and also first week of March. 
Remember no crackers
I was just banned from that community for pointing out in that thread some basic goddamn facts about intent =/= impact when it comes to hurling slurs at Black people and that comparing Black people injured by racial abuse to Gusanos (of all fuckin things) is some real messed up shit
lmao I really convinced myself they knew better and progress on this site was locked in, my mistake, this place is simply another minefield and it can blow up in your face at any time
Edit: I just realized the only two comments of mine a mod removed were the ones where I called someone a "cracker" at the end...........lmao I think I just became the first user in the history of this site to be banned for using the word cracker
At least that's partially the reason for my ban considering my other comments challenging the bullshit in that thread weren't touched
Somehow the comment comparing black people having a legitimate gripe to gusanos is still up while the original comment they were replying to was deleted for ableism even though it was mostly critiquing how the situation was handled and specifically said that disability shouldn't be used to shield critique of racism. I'm almost 100% sure that the same has been said about using disability as a shield for misogyny and queerphobia on here and those past comments were never moderated like that.
This is why I stopped putting energy into caring about the cries of white women and white queer people. I know damn well that they would never give Black people the same energy. Obviously, I'm not saying any of their struggles on the basis of gender and/or sexuality are warranted, but it baffles me how selfish and unempathetic they can be. White women treat Black women like shit and white queer people treat Black queer people like shit, only to expect everyone to have a pity party over their particular struggles, and guess what? In so-called "leftist" spaces, they DO always get said pity parties. This could especially be said about white women because performative cishet male leftists love to pretend to give a fuck about feminism because they hope to gain something from it. I always remind myself that the same white women who (rightfully) get annoyed at deflections like "not all men" are just as willing to say "not all white women" when a Black woman calls out their bullshit, and that reminder makes it easy for me to focus on shit that actually pertains to my people and anti-imperialist struggles. I have limited energy, so that energy is gonna be Black energy.
I saw that in the modlogs! Absolutely unacceptable.
"Silly minority, it's abelist to feel racism by this"
And the obnoxious condescension just dripping off that mod "it's been explained to you" as if the fact the man has Tourettes somehow negates the fact he hurled racist abuse at Black people that night, a literal inability to tell the difference between intent and impact, genuine harm (suffered by the cast of Sinners) and mere embarrassment (Davidson) that's negated through white sympathy
But apparently I'm the one who needs to be explained to, fuckin clowns
You were right on the money about this cracKKKer-infested site not being safe for POC and they instead went full
just to prove you right ten times over
Apparently they're going round two on the frontpage, screaming at Black leftists from Twitter, I guess they think the full extent of their callousness wasn't made obvious in the last thread