In the late 1960s, Native Americans fed up with what they called years of mistreatment by the federal government formed an organization known as the American Indian Movement, or AIM. Founded in Minnesota, the group followed in the footsteps of the civil rights movement and took up protests across the country. One of those protests took place in 1973, when some AIM members occupied the town Wounded Knee, S.D., located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Their protest followed the murder of an Oglala Lakota man and the failed impeachment of a tribal president that AIM members accused of corruption. The protests escalated into a violent standoff. (Read Full Article Here)