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American Indian Movement

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
American Indian Movement (AIM), organization of the Native American civil-rights movement, founded in 1968. Its purpose is to encourage self-determination among Native Americans and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights. In 1972, members of AIM briefly took over the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. They complained that the government had created the tribal councils on reservations in 1934 as a way of perpetuating paternalistic control over Native American development. In 1973, about 200 Sioux, led by members of AIM, seized the tiny village... Read more
American Indian Movement
...1960s and 1970s, the American Indian Movement (AIM) emerged as the...of police brutality in Indian neighborhoods in Minneapolis...Especially popular among urban Indians, it quickly became a...the larger civil rights movement . Russell Means, an Oglala... Read more
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement (AIM) A militant organization...from the growth of a pan-American Indian identity in 1968 to advance American Indian cultural, legal, and property...rival groups representing American Indian interests, such as the National... Read more

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