Yes, people do live there. It is in modern day India.
For the next 71 days, Indian protesters at Wounded Knee would hold off the federal government at gunpoint. Media from around the world would give the siege day-by-day coverage. And Native Americans from across the nation would come to Wounded Knee to be part of what they hoped would be a new beginning.
A major Renaissance novel about a man who fights imaginary enemies is Don Quixote.
Had experience in other social-reform movements.