Pine Ridge Shootout

Date: June 26, 1975 • Location: Washington D.C., United States

Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

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