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DESCRIPTION:Film screening & discussion of "Wounded Knee" from the American Experience 
 documentary series\n "We Shall Remain" about Native peoples\n\nOn the night 
 of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small 
 hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala 
 Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had seized the few 
 major buildings in town and police had cordoned off the area. The 
 occupation of Wounded Knee had begun. Demanding redress for grievances-some 
 going back more than 100 years-the protesters captured the world's 
 attention for 71 gripping days.\n\nHeavily armed federal troops tightened a 
 cordon around the occupation trying to choke off food, supplies and other 
 people joining them. The Indians bravely stood strong and gained the 
 sympathy and support of people throughout the country.  This act of 
 resistance defied the government and its bloody history of massacres like 
 the U.S. calvary slaughter of about 350 Lakota Indian men, women, and 
 children at Wounded Knee in 1890. \n\nFrom Wounded Knee  to Standing Rock, 
 North Dakota, the history of Native peoples in the U.S. has been one of 
 genocide, theft of their land, and being forced off their land and onto 
 reservations.  Many children were stolen from their families and held in 
 boarding schools where they were stripped of their language, culture and 
 indoctrinated in Christianity.  The history of the Native people has also 
 been one of resistance to barbaric oppression from the earliest times to 
 today. \n\nAs we write this, Standing Rock, North Dakota is a decisive 
 concentration point in the battle against the oppression of Native people 
 today which shapes the grounds that people are going to fight against the 
 incoming fascist Trump regime. \n\nDirected by Stanley Nelson whose work 
 includes: Freedom Riders, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,  
 Freedom Summer, and The Murder of Emmett Till.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/07/18794519.php
SUMMARY:Film screening & discussion of Wounded Knee from American Experience documentary series
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/07/18794519.php
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