USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -American Indian Movement, (AIM), militant American Indian civil rights organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, and George Mitchell. Later, Russell Means became a prominent spokesman for the group.

Detailed explanation-2: -AIM-the American Indian Movement-began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the summer of 1968. It began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting called by a group of Native American community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt, two Ojibwa men who had met in prison, founded AIM in 1968 in Minneapolis, along with Bellecourt’s brother Vernon and Banks’ friend George Mitchell. AIM’s original goal was to curb racial profiling in Minneapolis and give a voice to Native Americans living in the city.

Detailed explanation-4: -Through the Red Power movement, Indigenous activists challenged those practices-and cultivated a sense of pride in their communities-as they demanded sovereignty and self-determination. Throughout the country’s first hundred years, the U.S. government signed more than 350 treaties with Native American nations.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1960s, activists began organizing demonstrations to secure the civil rights of Native Americans, who had been marginalized, disadvantaged, and disproportionately impoverished since the U.S. government completed its policy of “removal” over a century earlier.