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American Indian Movement

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American Indian Movement (AIM), organization of the Native American civil-rights movement, founded in 1968. Its purpose is to encourage self-determination among Native Americans and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights. In 1972, members of AIM briefly took over the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Affairs, Bureau of, created (1824) in the U.S. War Dept. and transferred (1849) to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The War Dept. managed Native American affairs after 1789, but a separate bureau was not set up for many years.
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 in Washington, D.C. They complained that the government had created the tribal councils on reservations in 1934 as a way of perpetuating paternalistic control over Native American development. In 1973, about 200 Sioux, led by members of AIM, seized the tiny village of Wounded Knee, S.Dak., site of the last great massacre of Native Americans by the U.S. cavalry (1890). Among their demands was a review of more than 300 treaties between the Native Americans and the federal government that AIM alleged were broken. Wounded Knee was occupied for 70 days before the militants surrendered. The leaders were subsequently brought to trial, but the case was dismissed on grounds of misconduct by the prosecution. AIM also sponsored talks resulting in the 1977 International Treaty Conference with the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Civil rights organization founded in 1968, originally to help urban American Indians displaced by government programs. It later broadened its efforts to include demands for economic independence, autonomy over tribal areas, restoration of illegally seized lands, and protection of Indian legal rights and traditional culture. Some of its protest activities involved violence and were highly publicized (see Wounded Knee). Internal strife and the imprisonment of some leaders led to the disbanding of its national leadership in 1978, though local groups have continued to function.



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ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR PAROLE HAS come and gone for Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement who is serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents.
Peltier was convicted in 1977 for the execution-style murders of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, who were gunned down at point blank range during a confrontation with American Indian Movement (AIM) members on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Peltier was convicted in 1977 for the execution-style murders of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, who were gunned down at point blank range during a confrontation with American Indian Movement (AIM) members on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
 
 
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