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This book looks at the emergence of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the opposition to it. From the meeting in Minnesota's Still-water Penitentiary of the Bellecourt brothers, Dennis Banks, and other Indian prisoners, came AIM: in 1968, a patrol monitoring police harassment in Minneapolis' Indian ghetto; by 1972, a nationwide political and spiritual movement calling Native Americans to their land and sacred traditions, and calling white Americans...

"The mentality and operational priorities of the FBI have remained constant despite the supposed 'reforms' it underwent during the late 1970s. In light of the Homeland Security Act, a measure which formally sanctions many of the worst abuses in which the Bureau engaged a generation ago, every activist in the country should become intimately acquainted with the experiences of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. This South End...

The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people began to protest the decades -- centuries -- of corruption, racism, and abuse they had endured, arguing for political, social, and cultural change. The photographs of activist Dick Bancroft, a key documentarian of AIM, provide an intimate view of this major...

The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America is the story of the Sioux Nation's fight to regain its land and sovereignty, highlighting the events of 1973-74, including the protest at Wounded Knee. It features pieces by some of the most prominent scholars and Indian activists of the twentieth century, including Vine Deloria Jr., Simon Ortiz, Dennis Banks, Father Peter J. Powell, Russell Means, Raymond DeMallie, and Henry Crow Dog.

Recounts the long and ongoing struggle of American Indians for equality and justice. This is the story of a criminal case that began with the arrest of six members of the American Indian Movement--Kenny Loud Hawk, Russell Redner, Anna Mae Aquash, Ka-Mook Banks, Dennis Banks, and Leonard Peltier--in Portland, Oregon, in 1975. The case did not end until 1988, after thirteen years of pretrial litigation. It stands as the longest pretrial case in U.S....