The American Indian Movement is associated with a number of protests, which were sometimes violent. They include the takeover of Alcatraz Island, from 1969 to 1971, and the Trail of Broken Treaties protest, which saw AIM protesters stage a sit-in at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. Its most famous protest involved the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, during which two Native Americans were killed and a number of federal law enforcement officers were wounded.
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