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2 unusual facts about American Indian Movement


Black propaganda

It was also used against domestic opponents of the invasion of Vietnam, labor leaders, and Native Americans .

Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, is a 1969, non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria, Jr. The book was noteworthy for its relevance to the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement and other activist organizations, such as the American Indian Movement, which was beginning to expand.


Amelia Trice

She said she was prepared to call the American Indian Movement for help, the same organization that had gotten into an armed standoff at Wounded Knee, S.D., a year earlier.

Unthanksgiving Day

They were visited by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who, inspired by the occupation, led other protests, their first on Thanksgiving in 1970 when they painted Plymouth Rock red.

William Moyer

Over the next decade, Moyer was involved in the SCLC's 1969 Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., nonviolent blockades of arms shipments to Bangladesh (1971) and to Vietnam (1972), support for the American Indian Movement occupation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1973), and a nuclear power plant blockade at Seabrook, New Hampshire (1977).


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Fred Joseph Nichol

Nichol was the presiding judge over the 1974 U.S. District Court trial of AIM (American Indian Movement) members who had taken over the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota for 71 days in 1973.