In 2010, as part of the observance of International Day of the World's Indigenous People, the United Nations celebrated indigenous filmmakers. At a special event at the U.N.'s New York ...

Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, dies at 85 Bellecourt died on Tuesday night in Minneapolis, where more than 50 years ago he helped launch the American Indian Movement.

Speakers discussed the American Indian Movement from its early leadership to the controversial trial of Leonard Peltier, convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a 1975 shooting on the Pine Ridge ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Clyde Bellecourt, a leader in the Native American struggle for civil rights and a founder of the American Indian Movement, has died. He was 85.

Eddie Benton-Banai, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, is remembered for his advocacy of Indigenous peoples. Started in the late 1960s, AIM advocated for Indigenous rights and protested ...

Benton-Banai’s place in the American Indian Movement, a grass-roots organization formed in 1968, can be traced to his launch of a cultural program in a Minnesota prison, said co-founder Clyde ...

Clyde Bellecourt, a founder of the American Indian Movement who led violent protests in the 1970s at Wounded Knee, S.D., and in Washington over the federal government’s grim record of broken ...

This week marks 50 years since the start of the American Indian Movement’s 71-day occupation of the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

On Feb. 27, 1973, some 200 members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, led by members of American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the Pine Ridge Reservation village — which was also the site of the 1890 ...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has launched an interactive map of American Indian boarding schools and residential schools in partnership with the National ...

The ultimate failure of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School -- Immigrants, education, and the American Indian boarding school movement Date 2008 C2008 Type Books Physical description viii, 147 p. ...

The American Indian Movement he helped found drew attention with a string of high-profile occupations. But some who worked closely with Banks saw him more as a thoughtful intellectual than a ...