Massacre site became a rallying point for Indigenous rights Wounded Knee would become a rallying cry in the fight for Indigenous rights. In 1973, it became the site of a 71-day standoff between ...

Dee Brown’s 1970 book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee remains perhaps the best-known account of American Indian history, but Ojibwe writer David Treuer has long seen problems with its takeaways.