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Wounded Knee '73 (1973)

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The Federal Government's Opposition to Native Americans

The federal government is sort of like, you know, has its hands tied behind its back. There's this sense of a long term failure to follow through on treaty obligations. So all of that, the internal and the external come together to lead to this kind of rallying cry for the federal government both to help in this crisis and then also to provide more autonomy so that particularly these protesters can assert more self government.

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