In the spring of 1973, amid the tense occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Lawrence Lamont, a 31-year-old Oglala Lakota man and a veteran of the Vietnam War, found himself in the midst of a historic struggle for Indigenous rights. The occupation, led by members of the American Indian Movement and Oglala residents, was a 71-day standoff with federal forces, a protest against the failure to honor treaties and against a corrupt tribal government. It was within this cauld
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