| REDCLOUD | Oglala chief who resisted U.S. occupation of the Powder River country |
| TECUMSEH | Shawnee chief who resisted westward U.S. expansion |
| COALMINE | Resource in Montana/Wyoming's Powder River Basin |
| IRAN | U.S. occupation target in 2014's "RoboCop" |
| CRAZYHORSE | Oglala chief at Little Big Horn |
| CLOUD | Red ___ (Oglala chief) |
| VET | D.J.'s occupation on "Fuller House": abbr. |
| BLUE | Colour of the powder traditionally used to preserve the whiteness of laundry; or, in quantum chromodynamics, one of the "colours" ascribed to quarks (4) |
| STREAK | Course or succession of luck or wins; a swift dash; or, the colour of the powder of a mineral (6) |
| LOVE | "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Na |
| HEREWARD | _ the Wake, 11th-century Anglo-saxon leader who resisted the Norman conquest of England from his base on the Isle of Ely (8) |
| PINEPASS | Location of the Powder King ski resort in British Columbia |
| TALC | A vital component of the powder (4) |
| DIARY | Anne Frank's journal of her life in hiding during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, The ... Of A Y |
| COALMINER | What was the occupation of the father of country singer Loretta Lynn? (4-5) |
| OPPOSED | Ed's with the two Petty Officers who resisted it |
| IRONSIDE | Nickname of Edmund II, English king who resisted the Danish invasion led by Cnut |
| CAROB | The "St John's Bread" of the locust tree; or, the powder derived from said fruit pods, used to make ersatz chocolate or dog chocs (5) |
| ANNEFRANK | Jewish girl who kept a diary about the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War (4,5) |
| INTIFADA | The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaz |
