American Indian Movement

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    American Indian Movement

  • Establishment of the American Indian Movement

    Founders: Dennis Bank, NeeGawNwayWeeDun, Clyde H. Bellecourt, George Mitchell. Founded in Minneapolis Minnesotta.

  • Trail of Broken Treaties

    Cross-country protest organized by Native Americans. Indians started on the West Coast and made it to Washington in a caravan.

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs Building

    500 or more American Indians took over the BIA buildig in Washington D.C. Main issue was due to limited housing available.

  • Wonded Knee Incident

    200 AIM followers took over the small town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota

  • Wounded Knee Trials

    Eight months of tirlas in Minneapolis resulted from events that occured during the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. This was the longest Federal trial in the history of the United States.

  • Leonard Peltier Arrested

    A leader of the American Indian Movement was arrested after 2 federal agents were shot dead. This was springed by survaillance found from the Wonded Knee incident.

  • The Longest Walk

    Indian Nations walk across the US feom California to DC to protest anti-Indian legislation calling for the abrogation of treaties

  • FIRST EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAN INDIAN OFFENDERS

    AIM establishes the first adult education program at Stillwater Prison in Minnesota. Programs later established at other state correctional facilities modeled after the Minnesota program.

  • FEDERATION of NATIVE CONTROLLED SURVIVAL SCHOOLS

    Presents legal education seminars for educators of Indian children at colleges and law schools in Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, South Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma. National conference held in San Jose, California, concurrent with the National Indian Education Association Convention.

  • SCHOOLS LAWSUIT

    Heart of the Earth and Red School House--successfully sue the U.S. Department of Education, Indian Education Programs for unfairly ranking the schools' programs below funding recommendation levels. The schools proved bias in the system of ranking by the Department staff.

  • FORT SNELLING AIM ANNUAL POW WOW

    With the 20th Anniversary of AIM, an annual pow wow is established at historic Fort Snelling. The event becomes the largest Labor Day Weekend event in any Minnesota state park.

  • 25th Anniversary of Wounded Knee

    An Oglala Lakota Nation resolution established February 27th as a National Day of Liberation.