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Today, Wounded Knee and the Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest places in America. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Shannon County, S.D., which is contained within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is one of only five counties in the United States with poverty rates greater than 39 percent. The following historic images from the Associated Press, Library of Congress, Denver Public Library and The Denver Post’s archives span the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre to the 1973 standoff.