Camp at Wounded Knee

Camp at Wounded Knee

The American Indian Movement flag flies over a camp of tipis at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Photograph by Jon Lurie, 1998. Used with the permission of Jon Lurie.

Clyde Bellecourt and others at Wounded Knee

Clyde Bellecourt and others at Wounded Knee

Clyde Bellecourt addresses the twenty-five-year commemoration of the AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Photograph by Jon Lurie, 1998. Used with the permission of Jon Lurie.

Clyde Bellecourt and Dennis Banks

Clyde Bellecourt and Dennis Banks

Clyde Bellecourt (left) and Dennis Banks (right) field calls from reporters at Pine Ridge Tribal Headquarters. Photograph by Jon Lurie, 1998. Used with the permission of Jon Lurie.

American Indian Movement button

American Indian Movement (AIM) button

American Indian Movement (AIM) button from the AIM powwow held at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, December 29, 1990.

AIM (American Indian Movement) button

American Indian Movement (AIM) button

American Indian Movement (AIM) button from the AIM powwow at the Minneapolis American Indian Center, December 29, 1990.

Tipi and AIM sign on the grounds of the Washington Monument

Tipi and AIM sign on the grounds of the Washington Monument

Tipi with American Indian Movement (AIM) sign on the grounds of the Washington Monument, Washington, DC, during the "Longest Walk" (1978). Original in the US New & World Report collection in the Library of Congress’s prints and photographs division.

American Indian Movement button

American Indian Movement (AIM) button

American Indian Movement (AIM) protest button from Wounded Knee, 1974.

Flag of the American Indian Movement (AIM)

American Indian Movement flag

Flag of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Tripodero, January 6, 2018.

American Indian Movement (AIM)

The American Indian Movement (AIM), founded by grassroots activists in Minneapolis in 1968, first sought to improve conditions for Native Americans who had recently moved to cities. It grew into an international movement whose goals included the full restoration of tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. Through a long campaign of “confrontation politics,” AIM is often credited with restoring hope to Native peoples.

Excerpt of AIM song

American Indian Movement (AIM) members singing the AIM song, mid-1970s. From What Now, People? Vol. 2, Paredon Records, 1977.

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