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Proclamation given during the second short occupation of Alcatraz on November 9th 1969, American Indians stress to the U.S. Federal Government that the land is technically theirs under the Fort Laramie Treaty.

1969: Four Indians sit around a campfire during the Alcatraz Occupation. Government signs are vandalized behind them.

There is little doubt that the American-Indian movement provided a much needed cultural revival for the American native peoples. Due to the militant nature of their organization, however, many of the activists who were involved with the AIM were…

In the summer of 1968, prominent Native American activists Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, and Clyde Bellecourt gathered hundreds of like-minded individuals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Armed with goal of forcing the United States to recognize Native…

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In November 1972 people from every Native American tribe came from every part of United States and when they got to Washington DC they only had a rat invested building that was offered to them to stay in. They then took over the BIA building (Bureau…

RR7311A US INDIANS: CONFRONTATION AT WOUNDED KNEE

Wounded Knee is a small settlement on the Pine
Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota where for
the past few weeks armed members of the American
Indian Movement (AIM) have been staging a…

A Photographer Remembers Wounded Knee, 40 Years Later

A Photographer Remembers Wounded Knee, 40 Years Later