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Founders: Dennis Bank, NeeGawNwayWeeDun, Clyde H. Bellecourt, George Mitchell. Founded in Minneapolis Minnesotta.
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Cross-country protest organized by Native Americans. Indians started on the West Coast and made it to Washington in a caravan.
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500 or more American Indians took over the BIA buildig in Washington D.C. Main issue was due to limited housing available.
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200 AIM followers took over the small town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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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.
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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.
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Indian Nations walk across the US feom California to DC to protest anti-Indian legislation calling for the abrogation of treaties
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An Oglala Lakota Nation resolution established February 27th as a National Day of Liberation.