PREVENT A 2ND MASSACRE AT WOUNDED KNEE. SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIAN NATIONS -

New York: Park Slope Poster Collective, [1973]. Original 11 x 17” poster in three colors. A vertical fold line with some ink smudges. On verso, in type, is the history of Wounded Knee and the current political position of the Oglala Sioux, as they reassert their sovereignty against the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Near fine. In 1973, AIM occupied the village of Wounded Knee for seventy-one-days. More than 2,000 AIM members sided with one faction of the Lakota against the tribal council chairman, whom they accused of corruption. They also protested the U.S. government’s failure to fulfill treaties with Indian peoples and demanded the re-opening of negotiations. The occupation involved hundreds of officers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Marshalls and the FBI. Two Native Americans were shot. The events electrified American Indians, who were inspired by the sight of their people standing in defiance of the government which had so often failed them. Many Indian supporters traveled to Wounded Knee to join the protest. At the time there was widespread public sympathy for the goals of the occupation, as Americans were becoming more aware of longstanding issues of injustice related to American Indians. Not in OCLC.