Most people don’t realize that when Lakota people and AIM activists took their stand at Wounded Knee in 1973, the U.S. government answered as if it were facing an enemy nation. What began as a call for justice became one of the most militarized sieges in modern American historyFor 71 days, more than 200 federal agents FBI, U.S. Marshals, and BIA police, surrounded a few hundred men and women inside the small town. Overhead, fighter jets and helicopters circled. On the roads, tanks and M113 armor

For #NationalAmericanHeritageMonth we're honoring model and land protector Quannah Chasinghorse who is fighting to protect and preserve the beauty of her culture and putting Native American beauty in the pop culture spotlight, as seen in the documentary 'Walking Two Worlds.’ | The View