50 Years Ago, Asian Americans Took a Stand at Wounded Knee

​The Densho article recounts how, in 1973, a group of Asian American activists traveled from Los Angeles to South Dakota to support the American Indian Movement’s occupation of Wounded Knee, drawing parallels between Native American struggles and their own experiences with U.S. government oppression, such as Japanese American incarceration during WWII and the Vietnam War

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