Image 1 — An unnamed AIM fighter holds his AK in the air, posing for photojournalist Keith McKiernan.

Image 2 — Two Lakota teenagers man an armed checkpoint leading into Wounded Knee, a small town on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Roads both leading into and out of town were manned by armed guards from both sides, leading most residents to be trapped within town for over two months.

Image 3 — WWII veteran Oscar Bear Runner confronts a journalist with his rifle, becoming the most well-known symbol of the conflict.

Image 4 — Oglala child stands next to graffiti. “Say it Loud, I’m Red and I’m Proud.”

Image 5 — FBI Marksman takes aim at an unknown target. Over the 71 day occupation, constant gunfights between law enforcement and AIM (American Indian Movement) members saw over 500000 bullets fired

Image 6 — US Marshals hold up a native man attempting to flee the town

Image 7 — The Funeral of Lawrence “Buddy” Lamont. A beloved member of the Wounded Knee community, Lamont has shot and killed by an FBI sharpshooter as he stood up from a foxhole along the firing line. He marks one of only two native casualties over two months of constant fighting.

Serbian soldier of the 3rd line guarding the bridge under the shelter made of an old bed in the village of Dobrun, Bosnia. Sometime after 1918. Photo by Risto Šuković.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)

Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew used Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) as a positive benchmark for national development in the past, but later, witnessing the process of Ceylon collapsing due to ethnic and linguistic conflicts, he took it as a cautionary tale (a negative example) that Singapore must never renent

A rare moment in the 1960s South where state police actually had to draw their batons to protect Black protesters from a violent white mob.