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. 
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I knew that thread would be a complete shitshow lmao
"B-b-b-but he can't control himself saying the n-word. Quit being ableist!"
Immediate L for attending a pretentious circlejerk called an awards ceremony instead of refusing to go like a normal person.
Imagine being cramped into an enclosed space with not a single person wearing a goddamn mask. So much for caring about disabled people. I guess it's only people with particular disabilities that are worth considering like people compulsively saying the n-word in front of Black people.
If his compulsion was so bad that he cannot guarantee not saying slurs in front of marginalized people, then he should have the awareness to excuse himself whenever a person from a marginalized community is on stage. Nobody's stopping him from timing his bathroom breaks whenever a racial minority or a visibly queer person or someone wearing a hijab is on stage.
I feel so bad for Lindo and Jordan. What should've been a highlight of their acting careers gets completely overshadowed by this racist bullshit.
Imagine if the dude had said "free Palestine" instead. Not a single shred of evidence of his existence would appear in the broadcast and he would've been barred from attending any future events for life.
Shows you how they don't give a shit about his disability, either. They could have made accommodations for him where he can still participate without disrupting the event. I'm sure they have box seats they could have given him, but didn't because those are reserved for only the wealthiest audience members.