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American Indian Movement

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Corporate name headingAmerican Indian Movement
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Variant(s)AIM (American Indian Movement)
Movimiento Nativo Americano
See alsoFounder: Bellecourt, Clyde H. (Clyde Howard), 1936-
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Founder: Banks, Dennis
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Founder: Benton-Banai, Edward, 1934-2020
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Beginning date1968
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedMinneapolis (Minn.)
Field of activityIndians of North America Indigenous peoples Civil rights Autonomy
Found inUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws. Revolutionary activities within ... , 1976.
Dewing, R. Wounded Knee, 1985: p. 37, etc. (American Indian Movement; variant: AIM)
Veredicto del Tribunal Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas y Naciones Oprimidas en los EEUU, 24 de noviembre de 1992: t.p. verso (Movimiento Nativo Americano)
Encyclopædia Britannica website, viewed 8 July 2015 (American Indian Movement, AIM; a militant American Indian civil rights organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1968; original purpose: to help Indians in urban ghettos who had been displaced by government programs that had the effect of forcing them from the reservations; its goals eventually encompassed the entire spectrum of Indian demands-economic independence, revitalization of traditional culture, protection of legal rights, and, most especially, autonomy over tribal areas and the restoration of lands that they believed had been illegally seized)
Wikipedia, viewed February 4, 2022: Clyde Bellecourt (Mr. Bellecourt founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Eddie Benton-Banai, and George Mitchell.)
Not found inNUCMC data from Oglala Lakota College Library for Dakota American Indian Movement records, 1973-1983
Associated languageeng