fight for Indian rights.
             The Aquashes escaped from the camp and returned to Boston after several weeks, but the occupation continued. AIM surrendered after seventy-one days. AIM had won a clear moral victory. Through the publicity surrounding the event, the organization and its leaders succeeded in gaining substantial public sympathy for their cause. This support outraged the FBI, which felt humiliated by the standoff. Its agents set about punishing as many of the Wounded Knee protesters as possible; eventually more than five hundred arrests were made. The FBI possibly reasoned that if AIM'S leaders were tied up in litigation, the organization would fall apart.
             After Wounded Knee, Anna Mae Aquash became a passionate and valuable member of the AIM leadership. She helped organize demonstrations at several reservations and worked at AIM headquarters in a number of cities. Aquash was pa
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