History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2101 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The American Indian Movement
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The idea
In nineteen sixty-eight Dennis Banks, George Mitchell and Clyde Bellecourt gathered two hundred activists in Minneapolis and founded the American Indian Movement.
In practice
Activists demanding that the government honour its treaties and protect Native religions and culture.
Where people slip
The Yawp places AIM within a Red Power movement that staged the dramatic occupations of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee.
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