American Indian Movement

• The Price of Freedom; Two Members of the American Indian Movement Discuss the Murder That Changed Everything

[ROBERT ROBIDEAU], [Leonard Peltier]'s first cousin and a former member of AIM's Northwest chapter, worked closely with [Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash] during AIM's efforts on Pine Ridge. In 1976, Robideau, along with fellow AIM activist Dino Butler, was acquitted of shooting the two FBI agents on grounds of self defense while Peltier was still on the run from the law. Robideau served as a spokesperson for the AIM's New Mexico chapter from 1992 to 1996 and maintains a residence in Edgewood. On Feb. 23, 2004, News From Indian Country published an article by Robideau in which he alleges AIM founder [Dennis Banks] and the [Vernon Bellecourt] brothers were involved in Pictou-Aquash's death. During that period of time, the wife of David Hill [another AIM activist] approached me and told me that the...

• Santa Fe Reporter
• July 30, 2009

• American Indian Movement

Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an organization dedicated to the Native American civil rights movement. Its m...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• Like a Hurricane: The American Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.

In February 1972, several hundred people confronted authorities in Gordon, I Nebraska. The police in that town had neglected to prosecute the torture-...

• The Progressive
• Vol. 61 Nbr. 6, June 1997

• Jury Acquits Suspect in 1975 Killing On Reservation

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A federal jury Thursday found a man not guilty of murder in a killing on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 34 years ago, during the height of the militant American Indian Movement. Richard Marshall was accused of providing the gun that was used to kill American Indian Movement activist Annie Mae Aquash in December 1975.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 23, 2010

• Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement.

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• USA Today Magazine
• Vol. 133 Nbr. 2712, September 2004

• This Land Might Be Your Land

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma hearing stories about her grandfather's involvement with the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical union organization also known as the Wobblies. She went on to campaign for justice and the rights of indigenous peoples. She was a "full-time activist" from 1967 to 1972, then got involved in the American Indian Movement in 1974. In 1981 Dunbar- Ortiz traveled to Nicaragua to investigate the Miskitu Indians' land- tenure issues. Over the next eight years she made more than 100 trips to Central America, monitoring the conflict between the Contras and Sandinistas.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• October 27, 2007

• Questions Remain After Slaying Verdict: ; Family of Slain Activist Believe More People Were Responsible for Death

RAPID CITY, S.D. - The daughters of a slain American Indian Movement activist said Saturday they are pleased with the latest conviction in the 35-year-old murder case but remain convinced there are others who haven't been charged. Former AIM member John Graham was convicted Friday in the murder of Annie Mae Aquash in 1975 on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation. Her death remains synonymous with AIM and its often- violent clashes with federal agents in the 1970s.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 14, 2010

• Wounded Knee Was Burned to the Ground, Not Liberated

There are posters floating about and advertisements asking residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation to celebrate the "Liberation" of Wounded Knee in February 1973. This action causes many of us old-timers to scratch our heads in wonderment and ask ourselves, what is it that was liberated? Were the nearly 35 residents of Wounded Knee who saw their homes seized, looted and eventually burned to the ground liberated? Their homes have never been rebuilt and many of them had to move into already overcrowded homes with relatives. Thirty-eight years after the occupation of their hometown by the American Indian Movement they have had to find other homes in other places.

• Charleston Gazette
• February 22, 2011

• Indian Leader to Address Yakama Diabetes Conference

TOPPENISH -- American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks will share how he overcame diabetes by living healthier during a diabetes conference at the Yakama Cultural Center on Monday. Each year, the Yakama Indian Health Services sponsors the Yakama Healthy Heart Conference, where the public is invited to listen to speakers on diabetes, obtain prevention and treatment information and embark on a walk.

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• May 17, 2011

• Seven by Seven / Seven Things You Need to Know by 7 A.M.

The economy is always a good topic, but organizers of the Chautauqua Institution Week Seven lecture series on "The U.S. Economy: Beyond a Quick Fix" had no idea how good a topic it would become. First speaker at 10:45 a.m. today in the amphitheater is John A. Koskinen, non-executive chairman of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac. The impact of nuclear power is the focus of a program at 6 p.m. in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society museum at 25 Nottingham Court at Elmwood Avenue. Diane D'Arrigo of Nuclear Information and Resource Services will talk about West Valley. Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement will speak on the genocide of indigenous people, with comments from Masaou Yamamoto of the Japanese Mother Earth Environmental Tour....

• Buffalo News
• August 08, 2011