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AP WAS THERE: The occupation at Wounded Knee

FILE - A historical marker commemorating the Wounded Knee Massacre of Dec. 29, 1890 stands on a road near the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 8, 1973, where members of the American Indian Movement have set up a command post. Four decades earlier, hundreds of Native Americans, including children, were massacred by U.S. troops of the 7th Cavalry. That was the division led by Gen. George Custer that was annihilated four years before at the battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Native American youths on horses ride past a tipi at Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 21, 1973, as negotiations between the U.S. government and American Indian Movement leaders remain deadlocked. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File) FILE - A child stands in front of sayings written on a wall during the occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., by members of the American Indian Movement in 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harlington Wood, third row center without hat, is escorted into the village of Wounded Knee , S.D., by members of the American Indian Movement on March 13, 1973. Second row, left, wearing a mackinaw is Russell Means, an AIM leader, and Carter Camp, another leader, walking beside Wood. Wood was sent to the reservation in an effort to find a solution to the problem. (AP Photo, File) FILE - An FBI agent rests at the main roadblock into Wounded Knee, S.D., on April 29, 1973, next to his rifle, as negotiations continue to seek an end of the American Indian Movement occupation of the town. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - U.S. deputy marshals stand guard at a small creek that flows near their federal outpost at Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 31, 1973. The creek and its heavy trees and foliage has served as a route for people trying to leave or enter Wounded Knee. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - A girl looks out of a bus window as the American Indian Movement occupation comes to an end in Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - American Indian Movement members stand guard at a roadblock on a route into Wounded Knee, S.D., March 19, 1973, as talks between U.S. government representatives and American Indian Movement leaders continue. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File) FILE - Two armored personnel carriers wait in the darkness near the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Wounded Knee, S.D., on Feb. 28, 1973. (AP Photo, File) FILE - A U.S. marshal peers through binoculars as his partner keeps a weapon ready in the plains of Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 13, 1973, as government forces reinstated barricades along the roads leading to the village. (AP Photo/DT, File) FILE - A Native American man uses a surveyor's transit to track the movement of U.S. government forces in Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 12, 1973. Although a truce is in effect between members of the American Indian Movement and U.S. marshals, a constant watch on each other is maintained. (AP Photo/DT, File) FILE - A girl stands in front of the casket of Lawrence Lamont during his funeral in Wounded Knee, S.D., on May 4, 1973. Lamont died the previous week in Wounded Knee during a shooting confrontation between American Indian Movement members and federal forces. On the casket is picture of Lamont in his military uniform. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - Some of the hostages held by the American Indian Movement, from left, Clive Gildersleeve, Mary Pike, Agnes Gildersleeve, A.M. Clark, and William Riegert, gather together in Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 2, 1973, after they were released. They had been held since Tuesday, Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, Pool, File) FILE - American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks leans into the casket of an AIM member killed by U.S. marshals in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - Government agents maintain watch on American Indian Movement members who have been in control of the village for over three weeks at Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 24, 1973. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File) FILE - A member of the American Indian Movement sits with her rifle on the steps of a building in Wounded Knee, S.D., on March 2, 1973. The standoff with the U.S. government — which grew out of turmoil within the Oglala Sioux Tribe as well as a protest of the federal government’s treatment of Native Americans — became violent at times, and two Native American men were killed. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - Russell Means is pictured in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. Means, an American Indian Movement leader, said they were well armed. “We have high-powered rifles, shotguns, explosives and 14 hand grenades." (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - American Indian Movement occupiers and their relatives accompany the body of Lawrence LaMont who was killed in a firefight between AIM members and U.S. government forces in Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - FBI agents stop a man at a roadblock near Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - A man holds up a rifle in Wounded Knee, S.D., in February 1973. On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement took over the town, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
AP WAS THERE: The occupation at Wounded Knee