Photos: 1973 Wounded Knee occupation

February 27 is the 50th anniversary of the 71-day standoff in with federal agents in Wounded Knee, South Dakota that brought international attention to the American Indian Movement, also known as AIM.

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In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece

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