# Wounded Knee incident

> protest which began on February 27, 1973, when ~200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota and controlled it for 71 days

**Wikidata**: [Q4202299](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4202299)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Occupation)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/wounded-knee-incident


## References

1. [Source](https://github.com/JohnMarkOckerbloom/ftl/blob/master/data/wikimap)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File